{"product_id":"arid-stories-by-duanwad-pimwana","title":"'Arid Stories' by Duanwad Pimwana","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"702\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSchoolboys, shopkeepers, grieving families, drifting workers, lonely men, women being watched, remembered, misread.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"702\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"298\"\u003eArid Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e, Duanwad Pimwana turns ordinary lives into pressure chambers. These stories are often spare on the surface, but they move with a sly, unsettling charge — social class, gender, labour, desire and humiliation arriving through small domestic gestures rather than grand declarations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"1081\"\u003eDuanwad Pimwana is one of Thailand’s major contemporary writers, and the first woman to win the S.E.A. Write Award for a novel. Translated by Mui Poopoksakul, this collection gives English-language readers a sharp, quietly unnerving entry point into her work: realist, absurd, tender, sometimes nasty in the way life is nasty when nobody thinks they’re doing anything dramatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1266\" data-end=\"1455\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Feminist Press edition, first printing, 2019. Paperback in very good condition, with light shelfwear. Signed on the title page by translator Mui Poopoksakul.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44664327372883,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-27T164107.579.png?v=1779864150","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/arid-stories-by-duanwad-pimwana","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}