{"title":"Prabda Yoon","description":"The author of multiple story collections, novels and screenplays, Prabda Yoon is also a translator (of classics by Salinger and Nabokov), independent publisher (of books both originally written in and translated into Thai), graphic designer, and filmmaker. Having lived in the USA from the ages of 14 to 26, he speaks fluent English and is at home moving between the cultures.","products":[{"product_id":"the-sad-part-was-paperback","title":"The Sad Part Was - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Evocative, erudite, and often very funny stories of Bangkok life.'\u003ci\u003e-- The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 'Book to Look Out For' by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sad Part Was\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e offers an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives explore the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102786130143,"sku":"9781911284062","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Kx_p0vtaEU9781911284062.webp?v=1781087353"},{"product_id":"moving-parts-paperback","title":"Moving Parts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, English PEN Translates Award Selected by Asymptote for September World Book Club Surreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. In a pink-walled motel, a teenage prostitute brings a grown man to tears. A love-struck young boy holds the dismembered hand of his crush, only to find himself the object of a complex m?nage ? trois. A naked body falls from the window of a twenty-story building, while two female office-workers offer each other consolation in the elevator... In these wry and unsettling stories, Prabda Yoon once again illuminates something of the strangeness of modern cultural life in Bangkok. Disarming the reader with surprising charm, intensity and delicious horror, he explores what it means to have a body, and to interact with those of others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103718117599,"sku":"9781911284185","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/P0pdoZshBy9781911284185.webp?v=1781097497"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/prabda-yoon.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}