Thaifiction Publishing

Une jeune provinciale prend sa revanche sur une adolescence faite de frustrations et de rejets - en jouant avec son sang. Quand Arunwadi a écrit ce roman, paru en 1997, elle n'avait pas encore tout à fait 21 ans. Ce texte fort, inattendu de la part d'une jeune Thaïlandaise, a tout de suite trouvé un public parmi la jeunesse déboussolée du royaume et est devenu un livre culte. Récemment réédité, il a aussi fait l'objet d'un film.

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 - the first of a celebrated quartet of novels [see The Medium, Khoak Phranang and Lord of the Land under the ThaiFiction imprint]. 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

Trigger a car crash and you are fair game. A laugh-aloud look at the workings of Thai society today when it comes to milking a sucker dry. But when said sucker is into advertising, isn't it tit for tat? By the twice SEA Write Award winner of The Judgment (1982) and Time (1994) as well as Mad Dogs & Co, An ordinary story and A Baker's Dozen.

A man, a woman (or two) and ... a snake. The national bestseller of 1987.

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: a must-read for both teenagers and grown-ups

Against a background of frenzied land speculation where all sorts of dirty tricks are par for the course, who of Abbot Nian and Kharm the Medium will emerge as the Lord of the Land? The increasingly heated competition between the main protagonists of Snakes and The Medium offers a disturbing insight into the pains of the Thai countryside in the 1990s. By the winner of the Year 2000 SEA Write Award for his novel on cloning, Immortal.