Chart Korbjitti: 6 books

This epoch-making novel, set in the rural central Thailand of the 1980s, is a scathing satire and chilling endictment of modern society, which makes heroes of 'fuckin' cheats' and condemns upright citizens out of sheer hypocrisy. It earned its author his first SEA Write Award in 1982. Twelve...

Thirteen short stories spanning a quarter century by the most incisive Thai satirist of the times

Trigger a car crash and you are fair game. A laugh-aloud look at the workings of Thai society today when it comes to milking a sucker dry. But when said sucker is into advertising, isn't it tit for tat? By the twice SEA Write Award winner of The Judgment (1982) and Time (1994) as well as Mad Dogs & Co, An ordinary story and A Baker's Dozen.

Bangkok in the late 70s. A tenanted house between jungle and modern civilisation. The girl next door is struck down by cancer and goes for Thai cures. Alternately self-righteous, smug, kindly and selfish, the male narrator is caught between the temptation to help and the need to look after number...

Thai hippiedom in its 1980s heyday. First serialised in a women's magazine, yet another masterpiece by the author of 1982 SEA Write Award winning The Judgment and 1994 SEA Write Award winning Time.

Take half a dozen old women, a monk, sundry vendors, a few kids, a movie director, a madman and a half-wit; add a soda bottle and the silver shadow of lotuses; shake well; and presto: rich and taut and sweet and tart,Time, crowned by the 1994 SEA Write Award, is a masterly cocktail of laughs and tears. A...