Wimon Sainimnuan: 5 books

One way out of crippling poverty is by putting yourself at the service of the spirits of the land – folk credulity will do the rest. Thus is born the Medium, pitting himself against unethical Buddhist monks who also exploit the spiritual needs of Thai villagers. This is the second part of Wimon Sainimnuan's celebrated Khoak Phranang Quartet.

Against a background of frenzied land speculation where all sorts of dirty tricks are par for the course, who of Abbot Nian and Kharm the Medium will emerge as the Lord of the Land? The increasingly heated competition between the main protagonists of Snakes and The Medium offers a disturbing...

What happens to common country folk when they are caught in the jaws of wayward religion and superstition? This is what happens, at Khoak Phranang, the epicentre of rural Thailand in the 1990s. A short, droll and dispiriting interlude before the final confrontation between the masters of spiritual spin. Read it in Lord of the Land, the keystone of the Khoak Phranang Quartet.

An ageing tycoon wants to achieve immortality by grafting his brain onto a younger body — until he is challenged by his very clone. At stake, there is more than the control of his business empire. A Thai novel on cloning, from a Buddhism-inspired perspective — winner of the Year 2000 SEA Write Award.

Monks, murder, money, miracles and mystifications. Snakes galore and sleazy slitherings intertwined with scandal, suicide and rape in the central Thai village of Khoak Phranang – the first of a celebrated quartet of novels [see The Medium, Khoak Phranang and Lord of the Land under the ThaiFiction...