num_pages: 247
description: 'This debut show more than mere it is a fine achievement in its own right.' -- Guardian In poignant, tough, heart-catching episodes, Rattawut Lapcharoensap takes his readers beneath the surface ofThailand to a place that is dynamic and corrupt, full of pride and passion and fear. In these intergenerational stories of luck and loss, mother and son, Thai and tourist, healthy and sick are bound together. Sightseeing introduces its readers to the young boy and his brother speeding on a moped to the Cafe Lovely, a brothel in Bankok; Priscilla the Cambodian, a girl whose mouth is stuffed with the family fortune; a woman approaching blindness who barters for a last pair of sunglasses; and a pig called Clint Eastwood. Sightseeing reveals, slowly and powerfully that no place is too far away from home when it comes to pain, anger, love or hurt. It explores through confident and unforgettable storytelling what it means to be a son, a brother, a parent, a lover, a Thai - and a disenfranchised resident of the global village.
language: English
title: Sightseeing
titlecomplete: Sightseeing
genres: Fiction, Asia, Short Stories, Literature, Asian Literature, Travel, Contemporary, Short Story Collection, 21st Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2671
places: Thailand
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
publisher: Atlantic Books