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Sightseeing

by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
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Sightseeing
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Sightseeing

Contemporary Thailand through tender, humorous tales.

"Sightseeing" is a journey through the heart and soul of Thailand, where each story unfolds a separate facet of life's complexities amidst cultural shifts. If you're drawn to narratives that weave together the personal and the societal, offering both a touch of humor and a profound examination of familial and romantic relationships, then Rattawut Lapcharoensap's poignant debut may resonate with you. It's not just a book; it's an immersion into an Edenic setting forever changed by modernity.

  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2006)
  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780802142344
Authors: Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Publisher: Grove Press
Date of Publication: 2005-12-12
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.97
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Description

A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old Thai-American writer. Sightseeing is a masterful new work of fiction, a collection of stories set in contemporary Thailand and written with a grace and sophistication that belie the age of its young author. These are generous, tender tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts, and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm, Edenic setting. Rattawut Lapcharoensap offers a diverse, humorous, and deeply affectionate view of life in a small Southeast Asian country that is inevitably absorbing the waves of encroaching Westernization. In the prizewinning opening story, "Farangs," the young son of a modest beachside motel owner commits the cardinal sin of falling for a pretty tourist, and the confrontation that ensues between the native boy and the girl's pompous American boyfriend culminates wondrously amid flying mangoes and Clint Eastwood—a pet pig—swimming out to sea. In "Sightseeing," the much-anticipated holiday of a young man about to leave for college and his loving and fiercely independent mother becomes a different kind of pilgrimage altogether when they are forced to confront the mother's impending blindness. The concluding novella, "Cockfighter," is a triumph of storytelling in which a young girl witnesses her proud father's valiant but foolhardy and drawn-out battle against the local delinquent and violent hoodlum whose family's vicious stranglehold on
 

Contemporary Thailand through tender, humorous tales.

"Sightseeing" is a journey through the heart and soul of Thailand, where each story unfolds a separate facet of life's complexities amidst cultural shifts. If you're drawn to narratives that weave together the personal and the societal, offering both a touch of humor and a profound examination of familial and romantic relationships, then Rattawut Lapcharoensap's poignant debut may resonate with you. It's not just a book; it's an immersion into an Edenic setting forever changed by modernity.

  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2006)
  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.