Thaifiction Publishing: 33 books

Take half a dozen old women, a monk, sundry vendors, a few kids, a movie director, a madman and a half-wit; 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 1994 SEA Write Award, is a masterly cocktail of laughs and tears. A...

This epoch-making novel, set in the rural central Thailand of the 1980s, is a scathing satire and chilling endictment of modern society, which makes heroes of 'fuckin' cheats' and condemns upright citizens out of sheer hypocrisy. It earned its author his first SEA Write Award in 1982. Twelve...

Paris after the Second World War: the Left Bank, Montmartre and Picasso's dove. Wanlaya is a Thai music student with challenging ideas and challenged friends, all engaged in their own ways in a search for the true values of life. The meaning of art, the birth of music, the evil of elitist education, the...

A man, a woman (or two) and ... a snake. The national bestseller of 1987.

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.