http://www.pirasudham.com The voice from the grassroots of Thailand Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:28:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.pirasudham.com/buy-books.shtml Buy now from DCO Books In 2004 a journalist reported that two magnificent English country houses had become properties of a "wild man from Asia." The article created waves of diverse responses due to the nature of the claim as well as the background of the new owner, a son of ... http://www.pirasudham.com/shadowed_country.shtml Buy now from DCO Books Pira Canning Sudham's novel The Force of Karma, which is a sequel to Monsoon Country, brings the saga to a riveting and provocative pitch as the plot pulls into the cauldron most of the leading characters featured in Monsoon Country. They include the Esarn pauper, Prem Surin, ... http://www.pirasudham.com/the_force_of_karma.shtml Buy now from DCO Books Pira Canning Sudham's novel Monsoon Country is set in Thailand, England and Germany to convey the cultural tension between the East and the West, the clashes between the new powers and the old values, covering the span of 25 years of the socio-economic and political changes ... http://www.pirasudham.com/monsoon_country.shtml Buy now from DCO Books With the skill and craftmanship of a sensitive writer, Pira Canning Sudham conveys the inner voices of his subjects regardless of how illiterate, timid and insignificant they seem in their daily lives. Their simplicity and sensitivity come through his direct and clear prose, yet moving and ... http://www.pirasudham.com/people_of_esarn.shtml Buy now from DCO Books Out of the relocation of millions of people in the path of dam constructions and eucalyptus plantations, the suppression of wages and the price of agricultural produce, the forceful drive to gain more land to grow eucalyptus trees, the corruption, prostitution, child trade, slave labour, the ... http://www.pirasudham.com/tales_of_thailand.shtml When Pira Canning Sudham left his home in Napo, in the Province of Burirum, for Bangkok for the first time at the age of fourteen, he became aware that he had been born in the poorest part of Thailand. Some Bangkok Thais who wanted to show their contempt said ... http://www.pirasudham.com/background_about_pira_sudham.shtml Pira Canning Sudham's writing is noted for poetic qualities, a remarkable prose style in modern literature. It is aptly employed to address some painful realities and sordid social issues. His voice is far from being harsh and contentious; his sentiments are neither raw nor shallow nor unrefined. On the contrary ... http://www.pirasudham.com/background_author_profile.shtml It is a wonder that an impoverished boy from rice fields of Isan should survive the drudgery, disease, poverty, political upheavals and massacres in the struggle for democracy to be able, years later, to offer readers his literary works written originally in English. Author Pira Canning Sudham, seen as being ... http://www.pirasudham.com/background_david_of_thailand.shtml A pleasing aspect of Pira Canning Sudham's stories is that the author, a Thai, writes directly in English about the problems his own people are facing in Thailand, allowing the English speaking readers the true taste of his writing. He gives vivid descriptions of the existence of his poor countrymen, ... http://www.pirasudham.com/background_timeless_writing.shtml