Bangkok Wakes to Rain

Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford 'Fiction with a Sense of Place' award

De: Pitchaya Sudbanthad

Narrado por: Euan Morton

An intoxicating collage of lives intersecting around a building in Bangkok.

Places remember us....

A missionary begs to be moved from disease-ridden Bangkok.
A musician plays a private show for ghosts.
A student abandoned by his lover bleeds to death in the street.
A plastic surgeon designs a girl a new face.
A woman decides whether to cook a final meal for a dying murderer.

Lurching through decades, from Bangkok's rich past to its imagined, uploaded future, witness the city as it changes from a booming capitalist hub to a city engulfed by water, through human tales seeping into one another, held together by delicate threads.

For fans of A Visit from the Goon Squad and Cloud Atlas, this is a startling and intimate novel by a lyrical new writer.

©2019 Pitchaya Sudbanthad (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Bangkok coming to life

A fascinating glimpse into the intimate life of a city - past, present, and future - seamlessly flowing into one.

The reading is nuanced, and character portrayal is realistic.

A wonderful introduction to Thai literature.

Bangkok fiction at its best

I would recommend this book to people who like to be drawn to a place or time. Characters are uniquely Thai and although there’s a few twists interns some of the characters are very heartwarming.

It does have a Wi-Fi element and futuristic element which I’m not too keen on but it’s kind of new and experimental innocence…

I loved a few of the characters and the experiment with the development of the characters. Some characters seem bad but then later on you begin to realise they are more complex.