Residents discuss the situation in flooded Chinatown, central Bangkok, in 2011. Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s novel Bangkok Wakes To Rain recreates life in the flood-prone city. Photo: Reuters
Review |
Bangkok, capital of Thailand at the mercy of floods, brilliantly evoked in debut novel about its past and future
- The chapters, not just the waters, flow back and forth in time in expat Thai Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s dazzling debut novel Bangkok Wakes to Rain
- A grand house in the city is the backdrop to an exploration of the city’s relationship to water and its past, and imagines its future
Residents discuss the situation in flooded Chinatown, central Bangkok, in 2011. Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s novel Bangkok Wakes To Rain recreates life in the flood-prone city. Photo: Reuters
