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Hello everyone, it’s Christmas week! Happy holidays to you all. The book hauls keep coming and I’m nowhere near caught up just yet 😬🤷🏼‍♀️ Oh well! 🤣 Stranger Things Happen is the first collection of short stories by Kelly Link. It takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange and wonderful territory. For example, a librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses and a dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Sounds good to me! This stunning cover of Beasts Of A Little Land totally caught my eye. It’s described as an epic story of love, war and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement. It follows the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter in 1917 deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea. Finally, The Sad Part Was is the latest acquisition in my @tiltedaxisbooks collection. Translated by Mui Poopoksakul, this is a collection of witty, postmodern stories offering an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Have I tempted you to pick any up? Let’s have a chat in the comments! Have a lovely week everyone 🤗😘 #bookstagramuk #scottishbookstagrammer #morebooksplease📚 #shortstorycollection📝 #strangerthingshappen #kellylink #beastsofalittleland #juheakim #thesadpartwas #prabdayoon #muipoopoksakul #readingtranslatedliterature #booksimexcitedabout https://www.instagram.com/p/CmXEdY6Lipi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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12 short stories set in different areas in Thailand. These stories also show different aspects of life in the modern Thai society. All of them are narrated in the witty tone and are varied. The readers will see the romance between a man and a stranger who keep exchanging later during a bus trip. They'll also see the reminiscence of childhood in the grandparents's house over Dracula movies and some childhood scrap books. Yet there are also portraits in those stories: the loneliness and the feelings of being isolated, alinieted in the urban society they live in to the comodification of women (in which women often experience sexual abuse and violence) in the big sex tourism business in Thailand. An example? The short story entitled the Dissapearance of a She-Vampire in Pattaya which happens to be one of my favourite short stories here. I admire Yoon's skills in wrapping all of those issues in the lightest ways. Adds Poopoksakul's magnificent translation skills in the combo, making the collection of these short stories worth reading. Grab a copy of Prabda Yoon's The Sad Part Was at @periplusid for an affordable price. BOOK 4: THE SAD PART WAS BY PRABDA YOON Translated by: Mui Poopoksakul 📍 Thailand Des ✨ #bookishindonesia #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookstagramindonesia #bibliophile #bookreview #bookreviewer #booknerd #bookaddict #bookblogger #bookaesthetic #bookenthusiast #booksbooksbooks #descalibrary #descaslibrary #descareading2022 #fictionbook #literaturejunkie #nonfiction #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #ReadTheWorld22 #riotgrams #BookstagramReels #PrabdaYoon #TheSadPartWas #Thaiwriter #ThaiLiterature (at Krungthep Mahanakorn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdzO_ckvCZ5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=