Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok

By Emma Larkin

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783786205
• ISBN13: 9781783786206
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"