Author(s): Nardone, Mai, Binding: Paperback, Date of Publication: 04/04/2024, Pagination: 288 pages, Series: N/A, Imprint: Atlantic Books, Published By: ATLANTIC BOOKS , Book Classification: Short stories, Dimensions: 130 x 200 x 24 ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781838958312
Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Tintin and Big, a brotherhood of orphaned strayboys; Rick, the white American patriarch who abandons his Thai family when the going gets tough; Hasmah, whose bloody, hidden work is driven by secessionist rage. Sex tourism, Buddhist cults, gambling rings and skin-whitening routines threaten to take over a city reeling from financial crisis - in a nation constantly reinventing itself, anything can happen...
