Fülszöveg
— Pira Sudham
Monsoon Country
i
Pira Sudham's novel, Monsoon Country; is set in Thailand,
England and Germany to convey the cultural tension between
the East and the West, the clashes between the new powers and
the old values, covering the span of 25 years of the socio-
economic and political changes occurring in Thailand.
The novel gives, as no other fiction on Thailand has yet
done, insights into Thai life, particularly that of rural Thailand.
Foreign writers writing about the Thai people look at
Thailand from the 'outside', but Pira Sudham writes about his
people and country as seen from the 'inside'. This is one of the
things that makes them so fascinating.
'Pira Sudham is the kind of writer who is invaluable to a
country like Thailand. He is someone who believes in
development but not revolution, social justice but not
communism, and who has learnt that not all the Westernisation
in the world can take from a good man his responsibility to his
own people'....
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Fülszöveg
— Pira Sudham
Monsoon Country
i
Pira Sudham's novel, Monsoon Country; is set in Thailand,
England and Germany to convey the cultural tension between
the East and the West, the clashes between the new powers and
the old values, covering the span of 25 years of the socio-
economic and political changes occurring in Thailand.
The novel gives, as no other fiction on Thailand has yet
done, insights into Thai life, particularly that of rural Thailand.
Foreign writers writing about the Thai people look at
Thailand from the 'outside', but Pira Sudham writes about his
people and country as seen from the 'inside'. This is one of the
things that makes them so fascinating.
'Pira Sudham is the kind of writer who is invaluable to a
country like Thailand. He is someone who believes in
development but not revolution, social justice but not
communism, and who has learnt that not all the Westernisation
in the world can take from a good man his responsibility to his
own people'. South China Morning Post.
'Of the very few Thai authors writing in English today, Pira
Sudham is one of the most promising and eloquent'. Asiaweek
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