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Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok

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Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok
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Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok

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3.50 (80 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 6 May, 2021
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In Bangkok, a plot of land behind a city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community. For Comrade Aeon, a homeless insurgent who fled to the jungle after a military crackdown on student protestors in 1976, it's a verdant refuge and the place from which he documents the underbelly of the city. For Ida Barnes, an ex-pat whose husband may be cheating on her, it's an inviting retreat. For Witty, an urbane property developer married to one of the city's most famous movie stars, it's a 'Bangkok Unicorn' - that rare chance to make his mark on the Bangkok skyline. But the slum-dwelling spirits who guard its secrets know that it holds a much darker history, that it masks the silent politics at the heart of Thai culture. Written with a tender compassion for Bangkok's people and customs, Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok is a masterful, propulsive debut which introduces a fresh new talent in fiction
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781783786183
ISBN10 1783786183
Number Of Pages 372
Item Weight 462 g
Product Dimensions 135 x 216 x 23 mm
Publisher / Reseller Granta Books
Format hardback
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Emma Larkin richly and vividly brings her characters to life, revealing the drama of their existence through a multifaceted look at Thai society. Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok is a captivating tour de force * Alaa Al Aswany *
Endearing... enlightening... an affecting and suspenseful portrait of contemporary Bangkok * Literary Review *
A complicated paean to a complicated city [...] an intricate portrait of contemporary Bangkok that is, at once, dystopian and magnificent * South China Post *
Wonderfully imaginative and realistically detailed... In her debut novel, [Larkin] displays a kind of anthropological authenticity that transcends language -- Kong Rithdee * Nikkei Asia *

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Author's Bio

EMMA LARKIN grew up in Bangkok and still lives in Thailand. She is the author of Finding George Orwell in Burma and Everything is Broken.

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