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Winner of a PEN Translates! grant. Winner of the Southeast Asian Write Award. Selected as a 'book to look out for in 2017' by The Guardian and BuzzFeed Books. Named #1 Best Beach Read of 2017 by Monocle Summer Weekly. In 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 offer an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring 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. Praise 'The stories that form Prabda Yoon's mind-bending and strangely melancholic universe are unfailingly provocative... Playful, coolly surrealist... this landmark collection... is not only...Pages of The Sad Part Was :