Prabda Yoon

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Prabda Yoon

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The Sad Part Was

‘The stories that form Prabda Yoon’s mind-bending and strangely melancholic universe are unfailingly provocative… Playful, coolly surrealist… this landmark collection… is not only the first of Yoon’s work to be translated into English, but a rare international publication of Thai fiction… Mui Poopoksakul’s translation renders the stories fluent and accessible, ironing out the linguistic kinks…

Thrilled beyond words to be translated by Mui Poopoksakul and published by Tilted Axis Press!

Winner of a PEN Translates! grant.

Selected as a ‘book to look out for in 2017’ by The Guardian and BuzzFeed Books.

In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives offer an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work.

http://www.tiltedaxispress.com/books/#/the-sad-part-was/

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