Thai

A man from the West arrives in Thailand and is drawn into the bars of Bangkok, where he falls in love with a Thai woman. He decides to shield her, in the manner of a self-assured protector, from the world around her. Her quiet, Buddhist acceptance of things, which looks like passivity, slowly works against his confident pose, and his account turns into a frank examination of his own vulnerability. Beside him moves a second figure, his shadow and counterpart, and the story doubles as a collage-like travelogue about the misunderstandings between East and West, closed by the narrator's own notes.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

290 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Thailand

First published

2013 by Geopoetika

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9788661451263 (original)

9788661451867 (Geopoetika, Serbia)

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