{"product_id":"bangkok-wakes-to-rain-9780525534778","title":"Bangkok Wakes to Rain","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles.\" --Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Important, ambitious, and accomplished.\" --Mohsin Hamid, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eExit West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003ci\u003eBangkok Wakes to Rain \u003c\/i\u003eis an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pitchaya Sudbanthad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525534778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePitchaya Sudbanthad \u003c\/b\u003egrew up in Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and the American South. He's a contributing writer at The Morning News and has received fellowships in fiction writing from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the MacDowell Colony.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Pitchaya Sudbanthad \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47897112838301,"sku":"9780525534778","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_a40d3557-39b4-44e1-9193-3ff624a68687.jpg?v=1778002130","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/bangkok-wakes-to-rain-9780525534778","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}