In Ascension : Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024

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...

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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…

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Author: Mai Nardone
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 04/04/2024
Pagination: 288 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Published By: ATLANTIC BOOKS

Book Classification: Short stories
Dimensions: 130 x 200 x 24
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781838958312

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In Ascension : Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024

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