Seinee Saowaphong: 2 books

Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields, has his work cut out for him helping his farming relatives and convincing his lover's aristocratic parents that he deserves her hand. This prophetic, 1953 novel about the ghosts of time and rising radicalism in Thai society is widely considered as a masterpiece of art-for-life literature in twentieth-century Thailand.

Paris after the Second World War: the Left Bank, Montmartre and Picasso's dove. Wanlaya is a Thai music student with challenging ideas and challenged friends, all engaged in their own ways in a search for the true values of life. The meaning of art, the birth of music, the evil of elitist education, the...