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Published by Bangkok. tmc,, 1994
ISBN 10: 9748903885ISBN 13: 9789748903880
Seller: Antiquariat Güntheroth, Herzberg Mark, Germany
Book
92 [1] S. Gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 225 Original-Pappeinband mit Schutzumschlag.
Published by TMC, Bangkok, 1996
ISBN 10: 9748982068ISBN 13: 9789748982069
Book First Edition
Hard bound. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: new. First English Edition. This national bestseller, emblematic of the 1970s student generation, explores the generation gap between parents and children in a Bangkok middle-class family, the pains of growing up and tug-of-war between friendship and love in teenage hearts. The world of feelings and frustrations it sketches in a swift patchwork of flashbacks, impressionistic and particularly vivid and true to life, is familiar to adolescents the world over. Printing limited to 3,200 copies. 251 pp. Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Published by TMC, Bangkok, 1994
ISBN 10: 9748903605ISBN 13: 9789748903606
Book First Edition
Hard bound. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English Edition. The disaffected son of a Thai aristocrat goes to study law in London in the early 1920s, only to fall in love with an English journalist and become a reporter. In England, France, the US, Japan and China, their work and his fear of poverty and cultural incompatibility conspire to keep them apart and their love unfulfilled. When his eyesight fails him, he returns to Siam broke and broken-hearted. The circus of life is the first important Thai novel, providing unusual glimpses of the western world and Asia between the wars. Written by a young prince adroitly mixing fact and fiction, it created a storm when it was published in 1929. Thanks to its classic craftsmanship, fast pace, lively tone and themes of alienation, absurdity and injustice in life, this pioneering work of fiction remains astonishingly modern. First published in Thai, 1929. Printing limited to 3,000 copies. 256 pp. A new/unread copy. Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Published by TMC, Bangkok, 1995
ISBN 10: 9748933016ISBN 13: 9789748933016
Book First Edition
Hard bound. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. Time and tide wait for no woman. Noi, at 19, is three times widowed -- a girl working overtime by gutting fish before Police Officer Sommai takes her away from the tide to a life of love and leisure that lasts only until he, too, is killed. The narrator's mother is a wealthy fishing boat owner who has lost everything. Both women are losers in the tremendous changes that reshape Thai shores within a couple of decades, from the halcyon days of drift-net fishing to those of the trawlers and today's era of mass tourism. Little people, simple lives, modest dreams, traditional beliefs, petty fights, tragic accidents, and the dictates of the authorities: how fishermen alienate themselves from nature and lose their moorings is told in a patchwork, poetic narrative of rare beauty. A 1980s masterpiece to defy time and tide. First published in Thai, 1985. Printing limited to 3,200 copies. No dust jacket. 152 pp. Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Published by TMC, Bangkok, 1995
ISBN 10: 9748933024ISBN 13: 9789748933023
Book First Edition
Hard bound. Condition: New. First English Edition. The eternal love triangle: a drunkard, his son and an elephant. When Prince Suriya, "the number-one drunkard in Bangkok", accidentally finds himself in a forestry concession, he befriends its prized white elephant, the mischievous Maliwan, who shares his taste for rice wine and loves him obsessively. Meanwhile, the prince is believed to have died at sea. Two years later, as he is seriously ill with malaria, his "widow" is about to remarry. Will he come round in time to stop the wedding? How is Maliwan involved in this? And the prince's son? This gem of a novel, written during the Second World War, is an amazingly realistic tale of sacrifice in the name of love, at once humorous and tragic. First published in Thai, 1946. Printing limited to 3,200 copies. No dust jacket. 88 pp. Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Published by TMC, Bangkok, 1996
ISBN 10: 9748965783ISBN 13: 9789748965789
Book First Edition
Hard bound. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English Edition. This vivid chronicle of an upcountry district in the heart of Siam is told through the rise of Ruen, an aspiring timber trader who leads the small community of Khlong Suan Mark in its fight against nature and against man at the turn of the last century (1890-1909). Epidemics, fires, floods, famine and banditry forge a common will to survive and prosper despite all odds. Children are born and die. Families flee and return. Under the lure of money, simple men break their word, until they know better. Freedom and friendship are the guiding principles in Ruen's fighting world. He marries Sutjai, beds her best friend Jampa, and worships Lamiat, the wife of his worst enemy. This epic social fresco and ode to human endeavour and wilfulness, written in lush, swift prose, will take you through a wide sweep of emotions. First published in Thai, 1954. Printing limited to 3,200 copies. 384 pp. A new/unread copy. Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Published by TMC, Bangkok, 1995
ISBN 10: 9748928306ISBN 13: 9789748928302
Book First Edition
Hard bound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. Sex, guilt and retribution. Apparently inspired by the goings-on at a neighbouring palace during the author's childhood, The Story of Jan Darra is set in the expansive residence of a retired nobleman whose carnal excesses set the tune for the whole community. The story focuses on the sexual rivalry between His Lordship and his despised son, Jan Darra, who turns out not to be his son at all and who, in time, will reap revenge over his tormentor. Erotic pleasures described in hyperbolic, neoclassical fashion are merely a pretext to create in intricate detail a self-contained microcosm ruled by lust, if not passion and by scheming self-interest. With its skilful construction, psychological insights, lush prose and steamy yet inoffensive sex scenes, not to mention its overly Buddhist moral stance, this is an exceptional novel. Pramoon Un-hathoop (1920-1988), alias Utsana Phleungtham, was a noted journalist, short-story writer, and translator. First published in Thai, 1966. Printing limited to 3,200 copies. 264 pp. Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Published by TMC, Bangkok, 1995
ISBN 10: 9748933008ISBN 13: 9789748933009
Book First Edition
Hard bound. Condition: Fine. First English Edition. "This is the story of a young man who took as his wife a widow who was slightly deranged." Fak is the humble janitor of a provincial temple school. Abandoning an outstanding career as a monk, he defrocks to help his ageing, struggling father. While Fak is in the army, his father takes a wife. When the old man dies, Fak shares his hut with the widow. As he repels her advances and protects her from a hostile community, he falls prey to prejudice and misunderstandings from his neighbours, and there is nothing he can do to overturn the people's judgment. He will find solace in alcohol, which "liberates" him by providing oblivion. The man he trusts most cheats him in total impunity. This epoch-making novel is a scathing satire and chilling indictment of modern society, which makes heroes of "fuckin' cheats" and condemns upright citizens out of sheer hypocrisy. The tale is set in the rural central Thailand of the 1980s, but it concerns you, whoever and wherever you are -- now, and even more so tomorrow. First published in Thai, 1981. Printing limited to 3,200 copies. No dust jacket. 288 pp. Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Published by Bangkok : Tmc, 1994
ISBN 10: 9748903893ISBN 13: 9789748903897
Seller: Klondyke, Almere, Netherlands
Book
Condition: Good. Hardcover, dust jacket, bookmark, some small b/w drawings.; Name, place, date and small red stamp on endpaper; red round book plate stamp on half titl; SOME WORN SPOTS ON BACK DUST JACKET.
Hard bound. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: new. Reprint. Monks, murder, money, miracles and mystifications. Snakes galore and sleazy slitherings intertwined with scandal, suicide and rape in the central Thai village of Khoak Phranang. Central to the story are Yeesun, murderer, boxer, snake catcher and a good man - and Abbot Nian (Father Smoothy), who beheads Buddha statues, kills a monk and beds another for the greater glory of his temple. A tale told at breakneck speed with bite and sardonic humour. A daring novel written in 1984 denouncing the betrayal of Buddhism in the age of rampant consumerism. 220 pp. Size: 20 x 14 cm.
Published by Bangkok: Thai Modern Classics (TMC), 1996
Seller: Downtown Books & News, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st Am. Ed. 3,200 Copies. 8vo. 221p. Mauve cloth. Published in 1984 under the title Ngoo, Snakes is the first of the Khoak Phranang Quartet. The latter have yet to be published in English. "A daring novel.renouncing the betrayal of Buddhism in the age of rampant consumerism.".
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A Thai Modern Classics Anthology. 491 p. 21 cm. Mauve cloth in mylar covered dustjacket. Soiling and dampstains to rear panel of jacket, lower edge of jacket and bottomn corners. Top edge also speckled. Some scuffs in bottom edge of rear bard. Some discolouration to spine of book itself. Stories in English. Includes K. Surangkhanang, Bunluea Theipphayasuwan, Chart Korbjitti, Wimon Sainimnuan, Nikom Rayawa, Atsiri Thammachot, etc. and other writers from 1929 to 1994. First Thai Edition November 1994, 3000 copies.