Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

‘Recreates the experience of surviving in Thailand’s aqueous environment so viscerally that you can feel the water increasing around your ankles.’–Ron Charles, Washington Post

‘Essential, ambitious, and accomplished.’ –Mohsin Hamid, NY Times bestselling writer of Exit West

A missionary doctor pines for his local New England even while he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-World Battle II society girl marries, moms, and holds courtroom, little suspecting her solitary fate..Read More approximately Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own spirits, is summoned to appease the house’s resident spirits. In the present, a young female attempts to outpace the long shadow of her politics past. And in a fresh Krungthep however to come, savvy teens row tourists past landmarks of the drowned previous town they themselves usually do not keep in mind. Period collapses as these lives collide and converge, connected by the causes voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what period erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future.