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Cover of Bright

Bright

✍ Scribed by Pimwana, Duanwad


Book ID
100648720
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
108 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1931883807

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✦ Synopsis


Honorable mention in the Global Humanities Translation Prize
When five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as toldβ€”he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his father isn't coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community, Kampol is soon being raised by figures like Chong the shopkeeper, who rents out calls on his telephone and goes into debt while extending his customers endless credit. Kampol also plays with local kids like Noi, whose shirt is so worn that it rips right in half, and the sweet, deceptively cute toddler Penporn.
Dueling flea markets, a search for a ten-baht coin lost in the sands of a beach, pet crickets that get eaten for dinner, bouncy ball fads in school, and loneliness so merciless that it kills a boy's appetite all combine into Bright, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Duanwad Pimwana's urban, and...
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ABC : 1
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
All Identifiers : isbn:9781931883801
Single Author : Duanwad Pimwana
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Sorted Author by LN, FN: Pimwana, Duanwad
Title Length : 006
Title Parm D : Bright
Title Parm F : Bright
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ES Lib Name : NIRC 2019-06
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Uncomma Author : Duanwad Pimwana
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