Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad PDF Download

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“Bangkok Wakes to Rain ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. 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.

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The author uses an innovative style to weave a tale about the human cost of politics in the mid 20th century. Thailand faced the same kind of anti Communist, authoritarian government response to the Vietnam era that so many countries throughout the world did in those years. The role of the United States, the CIA and the “Domino Theory” that Communism was going to take over the entire globe brought mayhem into the lives of ordinary people from Chile to Indochina, and this story about how it effected the Bangkok based characters grabbed my heart while it educated my head on the history. Highly recommended for fans of modern history as well as those who love intricate stories about family, love and how to navigate life in those proverbial “Interesting Times”