Staff Picks: Steepletop, Sandra Bullock, and Celeste
by The Paris Review
Feb 01, 2019
4 minutes
I’ve wanted to read the work of the Thai writer and filmmaker Prabda Yoon for a while now, and with —his 2002 collection, translated into English by Mui Poopoksakul and released by Tilted Axis Press in 2017—I’ve finally delved in. The stories are marvelous: witty and at times irreverent looks at life in contemporary Bangkok that are unafraid to ask the big questions concerning the human capacity for good and evil. They’re formally innovative, too. The first story, “Pen in Parentheses,” uses the parenthetical to an almost Woolf-like effect, while “Miss Space” ends with a note that its final sentence isn’t a conclusion but rather “a.
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