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Bangkok Wakes to Rain

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

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Bangkok Wakes to Rain

By: Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Narrated by: Euan Morton
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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.

©2019 Pitchaya Sudbanthad (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Science Fiction
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Not worth the listen - unless you enjoy pretenpretentious crap written poorly.. and preformed even worse! Why is the narrator reading exposition in period voice? 😂

As if written by a high-schooler who has never left his home town

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