Sightseeing : stories
Lapcharoensap, Rattawut2005
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Review: "Sightseeing is a debut written by a young, award-winning Thai-American writer. Set in contemporary Thailand, these stories are generous, radiant tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts, and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm, Edenic setting. The stories in Sightseeing present a nation far removed from its exoticized stereotypes."."In the prizewinning opening story, "Farangs," the son of a beachside motel owner commits the cardinal sin of falling for a pretty tourist, and the confrontation that ensues between the native boy and the girl's American boyfriend culminates wondrously amid flying mangoes and Clint Eastwood - a pet pig - swimming out to sea. In "Sightseeing," the much-anticipated holiday of a young man about to leave for college and his loving and fiercely independent mother becomes a different kind of pilgrimage altogether when they are forced to confront the mother's impending blindness. The concluding novella, "Cockfighter," is "an astonishing coming-of-ager" (Kirkus Reviews), in which a young girl witnesses her proud father's valiant but foolhardy battle against a local delinquent whose family's vicious stranglehold on the villagers has passed down unchecked through generations."--BOOK JACKET.
Main title:
Sightseeing : stories / Rattawut Lapcharoensap.
Author:
Work:
Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
New York : Grove Press, c2005.
Collation:
250 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
Farangs -- At the cafe lovely -- Draft day -- Sightseeing -- Priscilla the Cambodian -- Don't let me die in this place -- Cockfighter.
ISBN:
97808021178850802117880
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PS3612.A59
Language:
English
BRN:
153302
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | LAPC | Available |