Bangkok Wakes to Rain

Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford 'Fiction with a Sense of Place' award

By: Pitchaya Sudbanthad

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Paperback | 8 August 2019 | Edition Number 1

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368 Pages

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2.4 x 13.7 x 19.9

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An intoxicating collage of lives intersecting around a building in Bangkok.

Places remember us. . .

A missionary begs to be moved from disease-ridden Bangkok.
A musician plays a private show for ghosts.
A student abandoned by his lover bleeds to death in the street.
A plastic surgeon designs a girl a new face.
A woman decides whether to cook a final meal for a dying murderer.

Lurching through decades, from Bangkok's rich past to its imagined, uploaded future, witness the city as it changes from a booming capitalist hub to a city engulfed by water, through human tales seeping into one another, held together by delicate threads.

For fans of A Visit From the Goon Squad and Cloud Atlas, this is a startling and intimate novel by a lyrical new writer.

About the Author

Pitchaya Sudbanthad grew up in Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and the American South. He has received fellowships in fiction writing from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, and currently splits time between Bangkok and Brooklyn.

Industry Reviews

An important, ambitious, and accomplished novel

Beautifully textured and rich with a sense of place

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