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David of Thailand
It is a wonder that an impoverished boy from rice fields of Isan should survive the political upheavals and massacres in the struggle for democracy to be able, years later, to offer readers his literary works written originally in English.
A Timeless Writing
Pira Canning Sudham’s writing defies time, for it reflects the unsolved problem of poverty, and goes beyond time, through the universality of the passions it describes: love, hate, generosity, selfishness, honesty and hypocrisy.
Dedication
To the late Boonliang and Kum Canning Sudham.
A Journey in the Shadowed Country
Of all Pira Canning Sudham’s literary works, Shadowed Country is the most fiery, making a head-on collision with what he calls the Dark Lord and exposing the unspeakably dark side of Thai society, covering the years 1981-2004.
For Freedom of Expression
Having experienced several struggles for democracy in which thousands of people died, Pira Canning Sudham intended to record the May 1992 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in the streets of Bangkok as a historical episode in Shadowed Country.
Life in Shadowed Country
Pira Canning Sudham, author of Shadowed Country considered himself a vivisector, exposing the hidden depths of the Thai society.
Out of Shadowed Country
Author Pira Canning Sudham has become the international voice of the Isan people, who speak Lao rather than Thai, and who inhabit the parched plains of Isan in the northeast of Thailand.
The Shadowed Country
In Shadowed Country, Pira Canning Sudham has covered the socio-economic and political changes occurring in Siam during the past 50 years.
Esarn the Dying Earth
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.
The Damned of Thailand
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.
Pira Sudham's Books
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