![]() The debut novelist deftly cuts across present time, slipping in and out of the past and future to bring forward a slate of characters who inhabit different periods in Bangkok. The novel offers a guided tour of corners of Bangkok that may well be overlooked by the average visitor, as well is its temporal contours. Millions of people who had planned to visit Bangkok are also under some form of social distancing or stay-at-home order, nursing a sense of uncertainty not only about when traveling safely will be possible again, but what sort of world we’ll re-enter.īangkok Wakes to Rain, a novel by Pitchaya Sudbanthad imagines both. ![]() ![]() The Thai New Year, which usually draws throngs of people into the street for days in mid-April-splashing one another with water guns, buckets, and even elephants to cleanse away past misdeeds-saw almost no action this year. For the past several years, Bangkok has been the most-visited city in the world, drawing 22 million visitors in 2019. Like urban centers across the globe, this metropolis-once filled with selfie-stick toting and sunscreen-slathered tourists-was eerily stilled because of a strictly enforced lockdown that is now being eased. ![]()
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