| Title | : | The Sad Part Was |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Prabda Yoon, Mui Poopoksakul & Deborah Smith |
| Release | : | 2025-08-12 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Short Stories, Books, Fiction & Literature |
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| Winner, English PEN Translates Award Winner, Southeast Asian Write Award. Selected as a ‘Book to Look Out For in 2017’ by the Guardian and BuzzFeed. In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives offer an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work. |
