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Bangkok wakes to rain : a novel / Pitchaya Sudbanthad.

Summary:
"A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting the course of her future. A jazz pianist is summoned in the 1970s to conjure music that will pacify resident spirits, even as he's haunted by ghosts of his former life. Not long after, a young woman gives swimming lessons in the luxury condos that have eclipsed the old house, trying to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in the post-submergence Bangkok of the future, a band of savvy teenagers guides tourists and former residents past waterlogged, ruined landmarks, selling them tissues to wipe their tears for places they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these stories collide and converge, linked by blood, memory, yearning, chance, and the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibian, ever-morphing city itself. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing reading experience from an author at the beginning of what promises to be a thrilling career"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781473677272
  • ISBN: 9780525534761
  • ISBN: 0525534768
  • ISBN: 1473677270
  • Physical Description: 360 pages  ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
Subject: Bangkok (Thailand) > History > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 7 of 8 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cambria County Library FICTION Sud (Text) 85131001714394 CACM Fiction For Use in Library Only -
Gettysburg Library FIC SUDBANTHAD PITCHAYA (Text) 35740635428394 Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Sudbanthad (Text) 39427103323895 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -
Martin Library Adults SUD Fiction (Text) 33454005638895 Reading Room Balcony Available -
Mifflin Community Library SUD (Text) 33249023285830 Fiction Available -
Allentown Public Library SUDBANTHAD, PITCHAYA (Text) 34455006536508 Adult Fiction Available -
Bethlehem Main Library f (Text) 33062009114480 Adult Fiction Available -
Dingman Township Library F SUD (Text) 30352101219359 Fiction Available -


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