Description
| Product ID: | 9781838958312 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Welcome Me to the Kingdom |
| Authors: | Author: Mai Nardone |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Short stories, Short stories, Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-twentieth century Bangkok, Welcome Me to the Kingdom tells the story of three families striving to control their own destinies in a merciless, sometimes brutally violent, metropolis. Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Tintin and Big, a brotherhood of orphaned strayboys; Rick, the white American patriarch who abandons his Thai family when the going gets tough; Hasmah, whose bloody, hidden work is driven by secessionist rage. Sex tourism, Buddhist cults, gambling rings and skin-whitening routines threaten to take over a city reeling from financial crisis - in a nation constantly reinventing itself, anything can happen... |
| Imprint Name: | Atlantic Books |
| Publisher Name: | Atlantic Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-04-04 |
