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Bangkok Wakes to Rain

11 Ratings

3.5

Duration
11H 23min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

An intoxicating collage of lives intersecting around a building in Bangkok.

Places remember us...

A missionary begs to be moved from disease-ridden Bangkok. A musician plays a private show for ghosts. A student abandoned by his lover bleeds to death in the street. A plastic surgeon designs a girl a new face. A woman decides whether to cook a final meal for a dying murderer.

Lurching through decades, from Bangkok's rich past to its imagined, uploaded future, witness the city as it changes from a booming capitalist hub to a city engulfed by water, through human tales seeping into one another, held together by delicate threads.

For fans of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD and CLOUD ATLAS, this is a startling and intimate novel by a lyrical new writer.

(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

© 2019 Sceptre (Audiobook): 9781473682733

Release date

Audiobook: 21 February 2019

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