Description
Selected by Asymptote for September World Book Club
A disarming collection of stories looking at the interaction of people and bodies in modern Bangkok.
In a pink-walled motel, a teenage prostitute brings a grown man to tears. A love-struck young boy holds the dismembered hand of his crush, only to find himself the object of a complex ménage à trois. A naked body falls from the window of a twenty-story building, while two female office-workers offer each other consolation in the elevator...
In these wry and unsettling stories, Prabda Yoon once again illuminates something of the strangeness of modern cultural life in Bangkok. Disarming the reader with surprising charm, intensity and delicious horror, he explores what it means to have a body, and to interact with those of others.
Author: Prabda Yoon
Publisher: Tilted Axis Press
Published: 09/06/2018
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781911284185
ISBN10: 1911284185
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | World Literature | Southeast Asia
- Fiction | Absurdist
About the Author
The author of multiple story collections, novels and screenplays, Prabda Yoon is also a translator (of classics by Salinger and Nabokov), independent publisher (of books both originally written in and translated into Thai), graphic designer, and filmmaker. Having lived in the USA from the ages of 14 to 26, he speaks fluent English and is at home moving between the cultures.
Mui Poopoksakul is a lawyer-turned-translator. She grew up in Bangkok and Boston, and practiced law in New York City before returning to the literary field. She is the translator of Prabda Yoon's The Sad Part Was (2017) and Moving Parts (2018), both winners of a PEN Translates award, and of Duanwad Pimwana's Arid Dreams (2020) and Bright (2019).