Charnvit Kasetsiri
14h
Thak Chaloermtiarana - Cornell SEAP
แนะนำให้ผมรู้จักนักเขียนคนนี้
Sunisa Manning นักเขียนชื่อดัง
ที่นำเรื่องราวของคนเดือนตุลา เสนอในรูปนวนิยาย
ลองรู้จักเธอดูสิ ครับ
"ว่าวรรณกรรมนี้ จะสืบทอดประวัติศาสตร์ช่วงสำคัญของชาติไทย
จากรุ่นนั้นไปสู่รุ่นใหม่ ๆ ได้อย่างไร"
เธอได้รับเชิญให้ไปเสวนาที่ Kahin's Center-Ithaca
Sunisa Manning
October 15, 2020
Video from the Bangkok launch is here! We gathered mere hours before the state of emergency. I am particularly proud of the moment we talked about what happens when you don't acknowledge Oct 6 1976, when you don't say truthfully how young people were killed. There is no reconciliation without truth.
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand - FCCT was live.
October 14, 2020
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FCCT BOOK LAUNCH: A GOOD TRUE THAI by Sunisa Manning
Please join us at the FCCT for the launch of a brilliant debut novel by
Sunisa Manning, set in the tumultuous political events of Thailand in the
mid-1970s, with strong resonance for today’s generation of dissident
protesters.
A Good True Thai centres on three main characters: Det is from a
distinguished family, great-grandson of a king, but who has just lost his
mother and is torn between his awareness of his elite status and his
need for friendship and love. He befriends Chang, a clever boy who
comes from the other side of the tracks, and then falls in love with Lek, a
strong-willed daughter of ethnic Chinese immigrants who gets drawn into
the radical politics of the time, and draws Lek and Chang in with her.
These are fully-formed characters pulled in different directions. A Good
True Thai is a subtle and complex novel which offers no easy answers,
but carries the reader with some superb writing. It vividly evokes a
poorly-understood period of Thai history to which young activists are
looking for inspiration today.
Sunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American
parents. She went to Brown University and now lives in California. Her
work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus and other places.
She’s been honoured with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge,
and awarded fellowships at San Jose State and the SF Writer’s Grotto.
She will join the FCCT online from California in a discussion moderated
by Jonathan Head
October 14, 2020
.
FCCT BOOK LAUNCH: A GOOD TRUE THAI by Sunisa Manning
Please join us at the FCCT for the launch of a brilliant debut novel by
Sunisa Manning, set in the tumultuous political events of Thailand in the
mid-1970s, with strong resonance for today’s generation of dissident
protesters.
A Good True Thai centres on three main characters: Det is from a
distinguished family, great-grandson of a king, but who has just lost his
mother and is torn between his awareness of his elite status and his
need for friendship and love. He befriends Chang, a clever boy who
comes from the other side of the tracks, and then falls in love with Lek, a
strong-willed daughter of ethnic Chinese immigrants who gets drawn into
the radical politics of the time, and draws Lek and Chang in with her.
These are fully-formed characters pulled in different directions. A Good
True Thai is a subtle and complex novel which offers no easy answers,
but carries the reader with some superb writing. It vividly evokes a
poorly-understood period of Thai history to which young activists are
looking for inspiration today.
Sunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American
parents. She went to Brown University and now lives in California. Her
work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus and other places.
She’s been honoured with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge,
and awarded fellowships at San Jose State and the SF Writer’s Grotto.
She will join the FCCT online from California in a discussion moderated
by Jonathan Head
