And, again, this city makes new ghosts." Are the ghosts a sign of life and liveliness? Quote, "the forgotten return again and again as new names and faces. SIMON: I'm haunted, which is not a word I try and use casually - but haunted by - I wrote it down - a signature line in this novel. Or you walk the streets, and see saffron-robe monks waiting for alms-givers to give them food in the morning. In Bangkok, where one sees sky trains and people on high-speed Internet - and at the same time, you see people making offerings to spirit houses on their land. It's something that I connect to, the simultaneous coexistence of both the ancient and magical and the new and technological. SIMON: You put a house at the center of this novel that gets surrounded by an actual skyscraper. PITCHAYA SUDBANTHAD: It's my pleasure to be here. "Bangkok Wakes To Rain" is the debut novel from Pitchaya Sudbanthad, who divides his time between Bangkok and Brooklyn.
"Bangkok Wakes To Rain" is a novel that begins with short stories that wrap itself around a city that bristles with glimpses of different people inside that city - a woman whose name we don't know trudges through today's modern streets, an American doctor at the last century and protests of the 1970s that divide that city but bring a generation and two young people closer together.
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