Sightseeing - Softcover

Lapcharoensap

3.95

2,847 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843543729 ISBN 13: 9781843543725

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2006

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'This debut show more than mere promise: it is a fine achievement in its own right.' -- Guardian

In poignant, tough, heart-catching episodes, Rattawut Lapcharoensap takes his readers beneath the surface of
Thailand to a place that is dynamic and corrupt, full of pride and passion and fear. In these intergenerational stories of luck and loss, mother and son, Thai and tourist, healthy and sick are bound together.

Sightseeing introduces its readers to the young boy and his brother speeding on a moped to the Cafe Lovely, a brothel in Bankok; Priscilla the Cambodian, a girl whose mouth is stuffed with the family fortune; a woman approaching blindness who barters for a last pair of sunglasses; and a pig called Clint Eastwood.

Sightseeing reveals, slowly and powerfully that no place is too far away from home when it comes to pain, anger, love or hurt. It explores through confident and unforgettable storytelling what it means to be a son, a brother, a parent, a lover, a Thai - and a disenfranchised resident of the global village.

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Review:

By the end of the first page of Sightseeing you're sighing with relief, safe in Thai-American Lapcharoensap's confident embrace. -- Time Out

This debut show more than mere promise: it is a fine achievement in its own right. -- William Sutcliffe, Guardian

Lapcharoensap can write with the bait and the hook of genuine talent. -- The New York Times Book Review

Unforgettable... Lapcharoensap?s stories of family life?often terribly dark and tragicomic - take you to places both familiar and exotic.****

, New York Post

From the Author:

Rattawut Lapcharoensap was born in Chicago in 1979 and raised in Bangkok. He was educated at Triamudomsuksa Pattanakarn, Cornell University and the University of Michigan, where he received an MFA in Creative Writing. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Sightseeing (2005) is his first book.In 2007 he was named as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.

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