03 octobre 2012 19:21:07
My thanks to the hermit of Phetchaburi for interrupting his schedule for a day just to come and see me in Bangkok, where he hadn’t set foot in months.
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From new or newly confirmed talents to veteran writers such as Ussiri Dharmachoti or Kajohnrit Ragsa, twelve of the best Thai short stories translated – for the first time ever – during the year 2012. Plus
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A young mother crazed by the imminent death of her infant son bitten by a cobra launches into a desperate quest for a snake doctor, an antidote and eventually a way to resurrect her child. This ‘slave-wife’ of a na Plus
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From new or newly confirmed talents to veteran writers such as Phaithoon Thanya or Chatcharin Chaiwat, eleven of the best Thai short stories translated – for the first time ever – during the year 2011. as if it began with the rain – JADET KAMJORNDET La Plus
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Followed by 'A tale without a name'
Thaifiction Publishing - 03/01/2011
Collection ThaiFiction
Langue English
4,50 €
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A writer grappling with his characters – or is it the other way around? – in an impish homage to Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. Followed by 'A tale without a name', a layered short story plugged into the age of the internet and human inc ... Plus
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Four of these outstanding Thai short stories are published in English for the first time. The others appeared first in the Bangkok Post. All mark new trends in Thai fiction writing and deserve the widest readership. Plus
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A variety of styles and moods by seven leading Thai short story writers of A traffic-wise couple – Sila Blood buds – Sila The lookers-on – Korn A bamboo bridge over rapids – Seksan Friends – Seksan ... Plus
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13 Thai short stories
Thaifiction Publishing - 29/11/2010
Collection ThaiFiction
Langue English
4,50 €
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Thirteen short stories spanning a quarter century by the most incisive Thai satirist of the times Plus
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Trigger a car crash and you are fair game. A laugh-aloud look at the workings of Thai society today when it comes to milking a sucker dry. But when said sucker is into advertising, By the twice SEA Write Award winner of The Judgment ( ... Plus
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Bangkok in the late 70s. A tenanted house between jungle and modern civilisation. The girl next door is struck down by cancer and goes for Thai cures. Alternately self-righteous, smug, kindly and selfish, the male narrator is caught between th ... Plus
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Take half a dozen old women, a monk, sundry vendors, a few kids, a movie director, add a soda bottle and the silver shadow of lotuses; shake well; and presto: rich and taut and sweet and tart, Time, crowned by the 199 ... Plus
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Wrapping the baby in swaddling clothes
Demain déjà – Marut Bua na Prang
24 août 2012 21:23:11
Mes mains volages | Troussent souris | Faute de mieux
Second best
13 août 2012 18:17:45
I’ll venture that Uthis Haemamool’s novel will again earn the man the SEA Write … except that I believe the more lasting literary values are to be found in the linear if sulphurous, one-of-a-kind tale of Saneh Sangsuk’s Under a demented sky.
A composite tale
06 août 2012 13:03:26
Another constant theme of the novel is the power of fate on individuals, along with the dismal sexual life of most characters, all the more striking as, when the author decides to turn erotic, his treatment is at once enticing, ironic and tender.
…and a bit of a fraud
30 juillet 2012 13:42:09
Rueang Lao Nai Loak Luang Ta (A tale in an illusory world) by Pichetsak Popayak, about 120 pages long, is a collection of folk tales masquerading as a novel.
A bit of a bore…
30 juillet 2012 13:34:46
Unless you want to get intimate with all manner of cows, read the first five or six pages to know what the story is about and jump to page 65 when the action begins to gel as you’ll have expected all along.
Les poètes 
28 septembre 2011 15:24:41
. To revive a minor Les poètes – Paul Verlaine/Léo Ferré – Poets Ce sont de drôles de types qui vivent de leur Ou qui ne vivent pas c’est selon la Ce sont de drôles de types qui traversent la Avec des pas d’oiseaux sous ...
De fil en bobine
12 mai 2011 13:09:46
C’est curieux comme les choses s’enchaînent sur la toile. Cherchant midi à dix-sept heures vu le décollage horaire en été avec l’amère patrie, j’ai découvert tantôt, à partir du Babel de lyricstranslate.com, ...
Festival Brassens – 1
09 avril 2011 11:45:13
. Georges Brassens’s turn. He was the bard of my formative years, much earlier than Jacques Brel. When his first record came out, I was eight (and he, 32), but soon I knew all the songs of La mauvaise réputation by heart.
Festival Ferré – 14
04 avril 2011 03:44:13
. For twenty years, it was Léo Ferré’s fetish song, the one for which he asked the audience to refrain from applauding when it ended, one by which he will always be remembered, ...
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