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Monsoon Country
Pira Sudham's 1988 classic Monsoon Country NEW 2022 EDITION It is hard to overstate the impact that Pira's Monsoon Country had on the outside world when it was first published in 1988. Regarded as a classic by many, yet is was classic in a genre of just one novel. Pira Sudham and Monsoon Country are close to unique in so many ways. He wrote in the English and never published novels or short stories in his native Thai language. A justifiable comparison could be made to Joseph Conrad writing almost a century before. He came from a peasant family in the northeast, the country's poorest region where a third of Thailand's population live. With Monsoon Country there was suddenly an international v...
The Force of Karma
THE FORCE OF KARMA The sequel to Pira Sudham's 1988 classic Monsoon Country A new edition of the 2002 The Force of Karma Pira added additional last chapter in 2022 bringing the historical saga up-to-date. When the Red Shirts demonstrated in support of Thaksin Shinawatra the one sure outcome was that it wouldn't be the politicians, army generals or university professors who would be killed. That job is always left to the peasant farmers. The story picks up from Monsoon Country in 1981 and takes us through Thailand's modern history to the latest military coups. If you enjoyed Monsoon Country then The Force of Karma is a must read. "With his rich command of the English language Pira Sudham possesses the unique gift of being able to convey the cultural evolution of Thailand through the eyes of a poor farmer’s son. Pira’s insightful observations make fascinating reading and the lad who once tended buffaloes has become a significant voice for the people of the Northeast." Roger Crutchley, Bangkok Post columnist and author of The Road to Nakhon Nowhere
Pira Sudham’s Last Three Stories
Pira Sudham added three more short stories to his writing output. Now living in the village in Northeast Thailand where he was born, he says these will be the last work he does. The stories are Operation Mopping Up, A War on of Streets of Bangkok and To Australia and Back. At the age of 14, Pira Sudham left his home village in the northeastern region of Thailand to be a servant to monks at a Bangkok Buddhist monastery. There, he was permitted to attend classes at the monastery school. To see himself through high school and the first year at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, he sold souvenirs to tourists until he was awarded a scholarship to study in New Zealand. While reading English at Victoria University, the young student had his short stories published by New Zealand’s leading quarterly, Landfall. Since then his literary works have appeared in Australia, USA, Hong Kong and Thailand. Pira Sudham’s books include Tales of Thailand and People of Esarn – The Damned of Thailand & The Kingdom in Conflicts. In 2014, It is the People, an anthology of his short stories, was published as an ebook, followed by Monsoon Country and its sequel, The Force of Karma.
Now Read On
Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance.It contains approximately eighty texts and extracts from countries andcontinents including: *Africa *Australia *Great Britain *India *Malaysia *New Zealand *Philippines *Singapore Designed as course for both native and non-native English-speakers in how to read literature, this anthology begins with shorter starter texts and questions, and develops in complexity as the reader progresses through the book. Now Read On provides the user with *hands-on experience of working with a plurality of texts from around the world *questions, exercises, pointers and commentary, accompanying all the passages of literature, and providing the student with the tools and confidence to critically evaluate any text *an understanding of the major genres - poetry, short stories, drama and novels.
Introduction to Word Formation and Word Classes in Indonesia
This concise grammar of Bahasa Indonesia Comprises two major grammatical components, word formation and word classes. In the first part an exposition on non-behavioristic, lexeme-based, and process model morphology is presented. The second part deals with word class classification. The morphological component deals with detailed analysis of all aspects of affixation, compounding, abbreviation, reduplication, back-formation, metanalysis, and combination of processes. The exposition on word classes consists of verb, adjectives, nouns, pronouns, numerals, adverbs, interjection, demonstratives, articles, interrogatives, conjunctions, prepositions, and phatics. The words and their sub-categorization are classified using syntactic criteria. A postscript on syntax and lists of references close the book.
Love in the Kingdom of Oil
A woman disappears without trace. Nobody, including the police commissioner investigating the case, can understand how a woman could simply walk away, leaving husband and home behind. After all, in the Kingdom of Oil where His Majesty reigns supreme, no woman has ever dared disobey the command of men. When the woman finally reappears, there is a blurring between the men in her life, as she leaves one to join another, then returns to her first husband who has since taken a new wife. She is trapped in a man-made web, unable to escape from a male figure who continually fills urns that she must carry.
Killing Plato
Jack Shepherd was a lawyer with friends in high places until he abandoned the fierce intrigues of Washington for the quiet life in Thailand. Plato Karsarkis was a famous financier, a master of the universe, until a New York grand jury indicted him for racketeering, money laundering, and murdering a woman to cover it up. Now Karsarkis is on the run with the international press in hot pursuit. One day Shepherd walks into a bar on the jet-set island of Phuket and finds the world's most famous fugitive waiting for im.
Boy Wonder (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Told in the form of interviews with those who knew and hated him, this hilarious and irreverent mockumentary recounts the rise and fall of notorious Hollywood producer Shark Trager. As a young man, Shark had dreams of directing artistic movies, but when his film school project is savaged by a snobby French critic, Shark turns instead to producing exploitative trash, the more shocking and outrageous the better. Fueled by a nonstop supply of sex and drugs, Shark's life and work become increasingly bizarre and erratic. Yet we meet a different side of Shark too, as we learn how he saved a group of Sunday school teachers held hostage by terrorists, prevented a horrific attack on Nancy Reagan by a...
Isan Writers, Thai Literature
Regional characteristics and regional language feature prominently in discussions of Thai identity, but there is little mention of regional literatures. In northeastern Thailand's Isan region, authors write primarily in Thai, but it is possible nonetheless to identify an Isan literature, which played a significant and at times pivotal role in the development of Thai literature in the second half of the twentieth century, as authors grappled with how their origins and experiences related to the Thai centre. Martin Platt's account of Isan literature is an important first step toward a broader study of regional literatures in Thailand, and shapes a model that has relevance for examining literary works in other Asian countries.
