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Letters from Thailand

Letters from Thailand

Botan
Kepner, Susan Fulop

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesSoutheast Asian History

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 1, 2026

ISBN10: 6162152308
ISBN13: 9786162152306
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Published: Dec 1 2026
Pages: 416
Language: English

When the original Thai version of Letters from Thailand appeared in Bangkok in 1969, it was promptly awarded the SEATO Prize for Thai Literature. Thirteen years later, it was translated into English to reach a much wider readership. Today, the book is still considered one of Thailand's most entertaining and enduring modern novels and is one of the few portrayals of the immigrant Chinese experience in urban Thailand.

Letters from Thailand is the story of Tan Suang U, a young man who leaves China to make his fortune in Thailand at the close of World War II and ends up marrying, raising a family, and operating a successful business. The novel unfolds through his letters to his beloved mother in China. In Tan Suang U's lively account of his daily life in Bangkok's bustling Chinatown, larger and deeper themes emerge: his determination to succeed at business in an unfamiliar culture; his hopes for his family; his resentment at how easily his children embrace urban Thai culture at the expense of the Chinese heritage he holds dear; his inability to understand or adopt Thai ways; and his growing alienation from a society that is changing too fast for him.

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