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Shadowed Country is a product of 40 years of using English to deliver fascinating accounts of Thai life in both urban and rural areas.
Pira Sudham's Books
Shadowed Country is the end result of Sudham's Herculean labour of love, of writing and revising and expanding both Monsoon Country and its sequel, The Force of Karma.
Pira Canning Sudham's novel The Force of Karma picks up where Monsoon Country ends in 1981, and the saga carries on to cover the tumultuous years of the economic crisis, the political upheavals and the massacre of May 1992 in Thailand.
Pira Canning Sudham depicts the problems of social transition in present-day Thailand and gives insights into Thai life in the rural northeast.
Pira Canning Sudham brings into the light the lives of some of the ordinary Thai people who live in obscurity in remote villages in northeast Thailand.
Pira Canning Sudham is the international voice of the forgotten people of the northeast of Thailand, an exploited minority speaking Lao rather than Thai.
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Pira Canning Sudham’s books are available at all good bookstores or can be ordered online direct from DCO Books in Bangkok for immediate shipment worldwide.
Welcome to the Pira Sudham website
Thai novelist Pira Canning Sudham's literary works have become a powerful voice of the silent and powerless people of Esarn (North Eastern Thailand). His writings stem partly from defiance for having lived a suppressed life in the 1960's-1970's under despotic regimes and partly from a driving force, having first-hand experiences of dire needs and social injustice in Thailand. His life-like portraits of Esarn people, as well as those of Thais in Bangkok and abroad, are of first hand interest to any person wanting to learn in depth about Thailand.
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In Esarn (North Eastern Thailand), the questions of grinding poverty, destruction of ecology, greed and ignorance are inextricably linked.
Pira Canning Sudham declares that he wants to find place in literature for the impoverished people of Esarn so that they would not live voicelessly and defenselessly and then die in vain.
People evicted from their lands and those escaping from poverty in Esarn to improve their lives in Thailand’s large cities, become side-street food hawkers, labourers, taxi drivers, workers in factories, slaves in sweatshops, servants and prostitutes.
In Shadowed Country, Pira Canning Sudham has covered the socio-economic and political changes occurring in Siam during the past 50 years.
Pira Sudham's Books
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