King Of Bangkok
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King of Bangkok
Author | : Claudio Sopranzetti |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Bangkok (Thailand) |
ISBN | : 1487526415 |
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The English translation of this best-selling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the city and return to his native village. Through reflections on contemporary Bangkok and flashbacks to his past, Nok reconstructs a journey through the slums of migrant workers, the rice fields of Isaan, the tourist villages of Ko Pha Ngan, and the Red Shirt protests of 2010. Based on a decade of anthropological research, The King of Bangkok is a story of migration to the city, distant families in the countryside, economic development eroding the land, and violent political protest. Ultimately, it is a story about contemporary Thailand and how the waves of history lift, engulf, and crash against ordinary people.
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