![]() ![]() Born in Thailand, he currently splits his time between Bangkok and Brooklyn. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future. Among the publications to which he has contributed are: Esquire, Newsweek, Freeman’s, Guernica, Electric Literature, The Millions, and The Morning News. Bangkok Wakes to Rain, the stunning debut novel by Pitchaya Sudbanthad, was, for me, that kind of book, one that creates a world so rich and alive I wanted to swim in it. Sudbanthad has been honored with fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts. ![]() It has also been named a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Casa delle Letterature Bridge Book Award, and the Edward Stanford Award. ![]() ![]() The novel, published by Riverhead Books (US) and Sceptre (UK), has been hailed as “ambitious and sweeping” ( Esquire) and “a remarkable debut” ( Financial Times) with a narrative that “recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles” ( Washington Post). Pitchaya Sudbanthad is the author of Bangkok Wakes to Rain, which was selected as a notable book of the year by The New York Timesand The Washington Post. ![]()
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