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Title: Nice to see a Thai writer emerging in the West........
Review: I picked this up in Bangkok this weekend simply because it's being reviewed in the Thai presses right now. Also, I'm always interested in reading books based in Thailand that AREN'T about the sex trade, prostitutes and the fat farang who has a bar girl girlfriend.Lapcharoensap is interesting in that, for all intents and purposes, he was brought up in the US, so he's writing more as a Westerner looking at Thailand than he is as a Thai. His dialogue, for instance, is not written the way Thais actually speak but instead sounds more like Americans speaking. That for me was the weak point of the stories. Having said that though, his prose is nice, and I think he's very talented. I look forward to reading more of his work, especially his upcoming novel.I'm giving the book 4 stars though for really no other reason than that it's written by a Thai writer, and there aren't very many of them writing in English.
