Thaifiction Publishing / Collection : THAI MODERN CLASSICS

Mad dogs & Co

de Chart Korbjitti

Thai hippiedom in its 1980s heyday. 

First serialised in a women's magazine, 

yet another masterpiece by the author of

1982 SEA Write Award winning The Judgment

and 1994 SEA Write Award winning Time.

The circus of life

de ARKARTDAMKEUNG RAPHEEPHAT

The disaffected son of a Thai aristocrat 

goes to study law in London in the early 1920s, 

only to fall in love with an English journalist and become a reporter. 

In England, France, the US, Japan and China, ...

Ghosts

de SEINEE SAOWAPHONG

Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields, 

has his work cut out for him helping his farming relatives 

and convincing his lover's aristocratic parents 

that he deserves her hand. 

This prophetic, 1953 novel...

Wanlaya's love

de SEINEE SAOWAPHONG

Paris after the Second World War: 

the Left Bank, Montmartre and Picasso's dove. 

Wanlaya is a Thai music student 

with challenging ideas and challenged friends, 

all engaged in their own ways 

in a search...

The field of the great

de MALAI CHOOPHINIT

 This vivid chronicle of an upcountry district in the heart of Siam 

is told through the rise of Ruen, an aspiring timber trader 

who leads a small community of farmers in its fight against nature 

and against...

Snakes

de Wimon Sainimnuan

Monks, murder, money, miracles and mystifications. 

Snakes galore and sleazy slitherings 

intertwined with scandal, suicide and rape 

in the central Thai village of Khoak Phranang 

– the first of a celebrated...

The path of the tiger

de SILA KOMCHAI

 Deep into the jungle, 

a young would-be hunter

goes after a barking deer

until he is stalked by a tiger

– and, through the confrontation,

finds himself.

This powerful novella,

written in the late 1980s

after years...

Of time and tide

de ATSIRI THAMMACHOAT

Little people, simple lives, modest dreams,

traditional beliefs, petty fights, tragic accidents, 

and the dictates of the authorities: 

how fishermen alienate themselves from nature 

and lose their moorings...

Cobra

de WANIT JARUNKIT-ANAN

 A man, a woman (or two) and ... a snake.

The national bestseller of 1987.

The 20 best novels of thailand

de Marcel Barang

Everything you need to know

about Thai literature, 

from its origins to Thai fiction today.

Literary criteria used in the selection

of the 20 best novels of the last century,

from The circus of life

to The white...

Time in a bottle

de PRAPHATSORN SEIWIKUN

This national bestseller, emblematic of the 1970s student generation,

explores the generation gap between parents and children

in a Bangkok middle-class family,

the pains of growing up

and tug-of-war between...

The judgment

de Chart Korbjitti

This epoch-making novel, set in the rural central Thailand of the 1980s,

is a scathing satire and chilling endictment of modern society,

which makes heroes of 'fuckin' cheats'

and condemns upright citizens...

Noblesse oblige

de Dorkmai Sot

Noble Wimon is twenty-one,

beautiful, rich, independent-minded

and a little conceited, but loved

by all and living a charmed life.

When disaster strikes, 

she must take care 

of her numerous siblings

almost single-handedly. ...

Behind the picture

de Seeboorapha

A 1930s Thai romance with a Japanese setting

and a political message

by one of the best stylists of Siam