Recreates the experience of living in Thailand\'s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles.
Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future..
Time collapses as these lives collide and converge, linked by the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself.
And in a New Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember.
In the present, a young woman tries to outpace the long shadow of her political past.
A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the house\'s resident spirits.
A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. --Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit West A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. --Ron Charles, Washington Post Important, ambitious, and accomplished.
Recreates the experience of living in Thailand\'s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles