However, Bangkok Wakes to Rain did not really serve that purpose. This is the way I learn about where I’m going. I can absorb something about the country’s history and hopefully also its culture. Historical fiction is generally an easy and pleasurable way to do that. Before going to a new country, I like to read up on it. I’m going to Thailand next week for the first time.
Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future. Time collapses as these lives collide and converge, linked by the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibious, ever-morphing capital itself. And in a New Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember. In the present, a young woman tries to outpace the long shadow of her political past. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the house's resident spirits. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. "Important, ambitious, and accomplished." (Mohsin Hamid, New York Times best-selling author of Exit West )Ī missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of 19th-century Siam. "Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles." (Ron Charles, Washington Post )
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