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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Publication Name
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- ISBN
- 9780525534761
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525534768
ISBN-13
9780525534761
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038776117
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bangkok Wakes to Rain : a Novel
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Literary, Asian American, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-042208
Reviews
Praise for Bangkok Wakes to Rain : "Remarkable...Ambitious and sweeping, yet at once intimately crafted and shot through with fine detail, Bangkok Wakes to Rain is a sumptuous accomplishment." -- Esquire "An important, ambitious, and accomplished novel. Sudbanthad deftly sweeps us up in a tale that paints a twin portrait: of a megacity like those so many of us call home and of a world where sanctuary is increasingly hard to come by." -- Mohsin Hamid "Gorgeously polyphonic and saturated in the senses, this novel brims with a wistful and gripping energy as it carries us through time and space. Sudbanthad brilliantly sounds the resonant pulse of the city in a wise and far-reaching meditation on home."-- Claire Vaye Watkins "[A] writer born in Thailand and now living in New York creates a portrait of Bangkok that sweeps across a century and a teeming cast of characters yet shines with exquisite detail. ...This breathtakingly lovely novel is an accomplished debut, beautifully crafted and rich with history rendered in the most human terms." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) "[I]n this assured debut, Sudbanthad provides a broad overview of Bangkok's history while diving deep into individual stories of romance, revolution, and suffering...vivid stories that combine to create a resonant whole." -Booklist "A bold and tender novel with a simple, ingenious conceit --the stories a house can contain, from a city's colonial past to its antediluvian future. Sudbanthad arrives to us already a masterful innovator of the form--a startlingly original debut." - Alex Chee, author of The Queen of the Night "Beautifully textured and rich with a sense of place, this is a big, ambitious book. Sudbanthad compellingly captures not only the long arcs of these lives but also the smallest moments, and how those moments linger in memory, how they haunt." -Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles and The Dreamers "Beautifully written." -Southern Living, Best New Winter Books "[M]editative...beautifully wrought...all of Sudbanthad's characters live and breathe with authenticity, and his prose is deeply moving, making for an evocative debut." -Publisher's Weekly, Praise for Bangkok Wakes to Rain : "Remarkable...Ambitious and sweeping, yet at once intimately crafted and shot through with fine detail, Bangkok Wakes to Rain is a sumptuous accomplishment." -- Esquire "An important, ambitious, and accomplished novel. Sudbanthad deftly sweeps us up in a tale that paints a twin portrait: of a megacity like those so many of us call home and of a world where sanctuary is increasingly hard to come by." -- Mohsin Hamid "Gorgeously polyphonic and saturated in the senses, this novel brims with a wistful and gripping energy as it carries us through time and space. Sudbanthad brilliantly sounds the resonant pulse of the city in a wise and far-reaching meditation on home."-- Claire Vaye Watkins "[A] writer born in Thailand and now living in New York creates a portrait of Bangkok that sweeps across a century and a teeming cast of characters yet shines with exquisite detail. ...This breathtakingly lovely novel is an accomplished debut, beautifully crafted and rich with history rendered in the most human terms." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) "A bold and tender novel with a simple, ingenious conceit --the stories a house can contain, from a city's colonial past to its antediluvian future. Sudbanthad arrives to us already a masterful innovator of the form--a startlingly original debut." - Alex Chee, author of The Queen of the Night "Beautifully textured and rich with a sense of place, this is a big, ambitious book. Sudbanthad compellingly captures not only the long arcs of these lives but also the smallest moments, and how those moments linger in memory, how they haunt." -Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles and The Dreamers "Beautifully written." -Southern Living, Best New Winter Books "[M]editative...beautifully wrought...all of Sudbanthad's characters live and breathe with authenticity, and his prose is deeply moving, making for an evocative debut." -Publisher's Weekly, Praise for Bangkok Wakes to Rain : "Pitchaya Sudbanthad's beautiful, ambitious first novel moves with an elegant restlessness that seems to match the city's own. Reading this book feels like waking to a singular and important new voice." -- Rajesh Parameswaran, Praise for Bangkok Wakes to Rain : "An important, ambitious, and accomplished novel. Sudbanthad deftly sweeps us up in a tale that paints a twin portrait: of a megacity like those so many of us call home and of a world where sanctuary is increasingly hard to come by." -- Mohsin Hamid "Gorgeously polyphonic and saturated in the senses, this novel brims with a wistful and gripping energy as it carries us through time and space. Sudbanthad brilliantly sounds the resonant pulse of the city in a wise and far-reaching meditation on home."-- Claire Vaye Watkins "[A] writer born in Thailand and now living in New York creates a portrait of Bangkok that sweeps across a century and a teeming cast of characters yet shines with exquisite detail. ...This breathtakingly lovely novel is an accomplished debut, beautifully crafted and rich with history rendered in the most human terms." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) "A bold and tender novel with a simple, ingenious conceit --the stories a house can contain, from a city's colonial past to its antediluvian future. Sudbanthad arrives to us already a masterful innovator of the form--a startlingly original debut." - Alex Chee, author of The Queen of the Night "Beautifully textured and rich with a sense of place, this is a big, ambitious book. Sudbanthad compellingly captures not only the long arcs of these lives but also the smallest moments, and how those moments linger in memory, how they haunt." -Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles and The Dreamers "Beautifully written." -Southern Living, Best New Winter Books, One of 2019's "Most Anticipated" Books: Esquire Huff Post The Millions The Week Lit Hub Electric Literature "Remarkable...Ambitious and sweeping, yet at once intimately crafted and shot through with fine detail, Bangkok Wakes to Rain is a sumptuous accomplishment." -- Esquire "Sudbanthad spans an entire century in his vast, illuminating portrait of Bangkok, bringing together a cast of characters as they experience love, revolution, and sorrow." -- Entertainment Weekly "[Sudbanthad's] glittering tales of the title city accumulate into a mosaic of jagged puzzle pieces whose chronological leaps make the whole thing come together only more powerfully by the end." -- Vulture "[W]ith its wide cast and still wider timeframes, Pitchaya Sudbanthad's debut rewards close attention....Bangkok unifies his characters' lives and, in a climate of concern for the city's future, amid rising sea levels, so does water, with its fearsome power to transform, disrupt, slaughter and redeem....Sudbanthad's blend of travelogue with social and political history is compelling in his treatment of expatriation....the ambitious structure pays off." --Financial Times "Gorgeously polyphonic and saturated in the senses, this novel brims with a wistful and gripping energy as it carries us through time and space. Sudbanthad brilliantly sounds the resonant pulse of the city in a wise and far-reaching meditation on home." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus and Battleborn "[A] writer born in Thailand and now living in New York creates a portrait of Bangkok that sweeps across a century and a teeming cast of characters yet shines with exquisite detail. ...This breathtakingly lovely novel is an accomplished debut, beautifully crafted and rich with history rendered in the most human terms." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) "[I]n this assured debut, Sudbanthad provides a broad overview of Bangkok's history while diving deep into individual stories of romance, revolution, and suffering...vivid stories that combine to create a resonant whole." -Booklist "A bold and tender novel with a simple, ingenious conceit --the stories a house can contain, from a city's colonial past to its antediluvian future. Sudbanthad arrives to us already a masterful innovator of the form--a startlingly original debut." - Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night "Beautifully textured and rich with a sense of place, this is a big, ambitious book. Sudbanthad compellingly captures not only the long arcs of these lives but also the smallest moments, and how those moments linger in memory, how they haunt." -Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles and The Dreamers "Beautifully written." -Southern Living, Best New Winter Books "[M]editative...beautifully wrought...all of Sudbanthad's characters live and breathe with authenticity, and his prose is deeply moving, making for an evocative debut." -Publisher's Weekly, Praise for Bangkok Wakes to Rain : "A bold and tender novel with a simple, ingenious conceit --the stories a house can contain, from a city's colonial past to its antediluvian future. Sudbanthad arrives to us already a masterful innovator of the form--a startlingly original debut." - Alex Chee, author of The Queen of the Night "Beautifully textured and rich with a sense of place, this is a big, ambitious book. Sudbanthad compellingly captures not only the long arcs of these lives but also the smallest moments, and how those moments linger in memory, how they haunt." -Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles and The Dreamers, One of 2019's "Most Anticipated" Books: Esquire Huff Post The Millions The Week Lit Hub Electric Literature "Remarkable...Ambitious and sweeping, yet at once intimately crafted and shot through with fine detail, Bangkok Wakes to Rain is a sumptuous accomplishment." -- Esquire "Gorgeously polyphonic and saturated in the senses, this novel brims with a wistful and gripping energy as it carries us through time and space. Sudbanthad brilliantly sounds the resonant pulse of the city in a wise and far-reaching meditation on home." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus and Battleborn "[A] writer born in Thailand and now living in New York creates a portrait of Bangkok that sweeps across a century and a teeming cast of characters yet shines with exquisite detail. ...This breathtakingly lovely novel is an accomplished debut, beautifully crafted and rich with history rendered in the most human terms." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) "[I]n this assured debut, Sudbanthad provides a broad overview of Bangkok's history while diving deep into individual stories of romance, revolution, and suffering...vivid stories that combine to create a resonant whole." -Booklist "A bold and tender novel with a simple, ingenious conceit --the stories a house can contain, from a city's colonial past to its antediluvian future. Sudbanthad arrives to us already a masterful innovator of the form--a startlingly original debut." - Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night "Beautifully textured and rich with a sense of place, this is a big, ambitious book. Sudbanthad compellingly captures not only the long arcs of these lives but also the smallest moments, and how those moments linger in memory, how they haunt." -Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles and The Dreamers "Beautifully written." -Southern Living, Best New Winter Books "[M]editative...beautifully wrought...all of Sudbanthad's characters live and breathe with authenticity, and his prose is deeply moving, making for an evocative debut." -Publisher's Weekly
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
"Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles."--Ron Charles, Washington Post "Important, ambitious, and accomplished." --Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit West A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the house's resident spirits. In the present, a young woman tries to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in a New Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these lives collide and converge, linked by the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future., "Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles." --Ron Charles, Washington Post "Important, ambitious, and accomplished." --Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit West A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the house's resident spirits. In the present, a young woman tries to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in a New Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these lives collide and converge, linked by the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future.
LC Classification Number
PS3619.U346B36 2019
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- r***f (78)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseSo happy with my purchase. This book was in even better shape than I imagined it would be, and my package arrived quickly, and securely and carefully wrapped. Would definitely purchase from this seller again.Message From Málaga Helen MacInnes1971 Hardcover (#146388497439)
- a***n (178)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseOrder came super fast and item just as described. Will order from seller again.FIVE SCREENPLAYS BY PRESTON STURGES By Brian Henderson- Free Shipping (#146386740490)
- 8***h (29)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat service quick deliveryGuardians of the Galaxy by Abnett & Lanning Omnibus (Marvel Comics 2016) (#146493665923)