Historical fiction books from Thailand
Recommended historical fiction books (2)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Thailand for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Jasmine Nights by S. P. Somtow EN
Description:
The setting is Thailand and the protagonists are two boys, one Thai, the other African-American. The novel traces their relationship, which is a meeting of East and West. By a Thai-born writer, author of Vampire Junction.
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Memories of the Memories of the Black by NITIPRAPHA EN
Description:
A Sino-Chinese family find their destiny is inseparably entangled with that of the country they have adopted as a home. Not long before the Communist revolution, Tong, sent by his peasant-parents in impoverished rural China to work with a relative in Siam, has risen to become a rice-trading tycoon in Bangkok's Chinatown, married a former palace cook and built a large family in the town of Pad Riew. Haunted by the dream of returning to his true home in China, Tong, along with his wife and their five children, are swept along by the torrents of history as World War II breakout and China turns re... continue