{"product_id":"arid-dreams-stories","title":"Arid Dreams: Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eArid Dreams: Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDuanwad Pimwana\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781936932566\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Feminist Press at CUNY\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA social realist exploration from Thailand's preeminent contemporary woman writer: each of her stories poses its own moral challenge, pleasurable and unsettling at once. (NPR.org)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for more but remain suspended in routine. They bide their time, waiting for an extraordinary event to end their stasis. A politician's wife imagines her life had her husband's accident been fatal, a man on death row requests that a friend clear up a misunderstanding with a sex worker, and an elevator attendant feels himself wasting away while trapped, immobile, at his station all day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith curious wit, this collection offers revelatory insight and subtle critique, exploring class, gender, and disenchantment in a changing country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The Feminist Press at CUNY","offers":[{"title":"Arid Dreams: Stories | Duanwad Pimwana | Quality | 9781936932566 | New | Fiction 1286567","offer_id":50550619242754,"sku":"1286567","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/411EMK-i4YL.jpg?v=1790470321","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/arid-dreams-stories","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}