Welcome Me to the Kingdom
Title | Welcome Me to the Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Mai Nardone |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2023-02-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593498194 |
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-twentieth century Bangkok, telling the story of three families striving to control their destinies in a merciless, sometimes brutally violent, metropolis. “Mai Nardone is a writer with an atlas straight to the heart. I did not want to put this book down and neither will you.”—C Pam Zhang, bestselling author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold We came with the drought. From the window of the train, the rich brown of the Chao Phraya River marked the turn from the northeast into the central plains. We came for Bangkok on the delta. The thin tributaries that laced the provinces found full current at the capital. And in the city, we’d heard, the wealth was wide and deep. In 1980, young lovers Pea and Nam arrive in Bangkok in search of a life, and a world, beyond Thailand’s rural outskirts. Thirty days, they promise each other. Thirty days for Pea to find work, for him to put aside his violent and unstable past and take root in this strange new land. But Bangkok does not want for male laborers, especially teenage boys with thick provincial accents, and when time finally runs out on their promise, it’s Nam who ultimately adapts to the capital’s ruthless logic and survives. Spanning decades and perspectives, seamlessly shifting between the absurd and the tenderhearted, the interwoven stories of Welcome Me to the Kingdom introduce three families—Nam, her American husband, Rick, and their daughter, Lara; Vitat, a Thai Elvis impersonator, and his only daughter, Pinky; and Tintin and Benz, orphans who have adopted each other as brothers—who employ various schemes to lie, betray, and seduce their way to the “good life.” These disparate citizens of Bangkok orbit each other over the next three decades—sometimes violently, passionately colliding. Through skin-whitening routines, cult conversion, gambling, and sex work, the collection’s characters look for reinvention in a city buckling under the weight of its own modernity. Wildly imaginative and ambitious, Mai Nardone’s stories reveal the growing discrepancy between Bangkok’s smiling self-image and its ugly underbelly, and, in the process, offer a striking portrait of a city unmade by the whims of global capitalism, in a kingdom caught between this world and the next.
Welcome Me to the Kingdom
Title | Welcome Me to the Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Mai Nardone |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2023-02-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593498186 |
An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-twentieth century Bangkok, Welcome Me to the Kingdom tells the story of three families striving to control their own destinies in a merciless, sometimes brutally violent, metropolis. We came with the drought. From the window of the train, the rich brown of the Chao Phraya River marked the turn from the northeast into the central plains. We came for Bangkok on the delta. The thin tributaries that laced the provinces found full current at the capital. And in the city, we’d heard, the wealth was wide and deep. In 1980, young lovers Pea and Nam arrive in Bangkok in search of a life, and a world, beyond Thailand’s rural outskirts. Thirty days, they promise each other. Thirty days for Pea to find work, for him to put aside his violent and unstable past and take root in this strange new land. But Bangkok does not want for male laborers, especially teenage boys with thick provincial accents, and when time finally runs out on their promise, it’s Nam who ultimately adapts to the capital’s ruthless logic and survives. Spanning decades and perspectives, seamlessly shifting between the absurd and the tenderhearted, the interwoven stories of Welcome Me to the Kingdom introduce three families—Nam, her American husband, Rick, and their daughter, Lara; Vitat, a Thai Elvis impersonator, and his only daughter, Pinky; and Tintin and Benz, orphans who have adopted each other as brothers—who employ various schemes to lie, betray, and seduce their way to the “good life.” These disparate citizens of Bangkok orbit each other over the next three decades—sometimes violently, passionately colliding. Through skin-whitening routines, cult conversion, gambling, and sex work, the collection’s characters look for reinvention in a city buckling under the weight of its own modernity. Wildly imaginative and ambitious, Mai Nardone’s stories reveal the growing discrepancy between Bangkok’s smiling self-image and its ugly underbelly, and, in the process, offer a striking portrait of a city unmade by the whims of global capitalism, in a kingdom caught between this world and the next.
The Electric Kingdom
Title | The Electric Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | David Arnold |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2022-03-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0593202244 |
New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth. When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in an old abandoned cinema; and the enigmatic Deliverer, who lives Life after Life in an attempt to put the world back together. As swarms of infected Flies roam the earth, these few survivors navigate the woods of post-apocalyptic New England, meeting others along the way, each on their own quest to find life and love in a world gone dark. The Electric Kingdom is a sweeping exploration of art, storytelling, eternal life, and above all, a testament to the notion that even in an exterminated world, one person might find beauty in another.
WELCOME ME TO THE KINGDOM.
Title | WELCOME ME TO THE KINGDOM. PDF eBook |
Author | MAI. NARDONE |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781838958299 |
Welcome to the World
Title | Welcome to the World PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Wilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2018-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781907860515 |
Welcome To The World is a delightful book celebrating the arrival of a new baby.The story follows a charming little elephant, on a colorful journey, discovering all the wonders the world has to offer. Beautifully illustrated in full color this book is hard backed with cheerful end papers.With space for you to write a personal message in the front this book is a wonderful keepsake and makes the perfect gift for baby showers and newborn presents.Our You're The Biggest Book compliments this title and makes the perfect gift for the older sibling who has just become the biggest.
Welcome to the Kingdom
Title | Welcome to the Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Kennedy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2017-05-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781532762925 |
What happens after Jesus Christ becomes your Savior and King? The Bible tells us that "old things become new". The most important thing to become new is our mind! The transformation from the old self to the new self might feel intimidating, but the truth is we are all going through it together one day at a time. God, through the Holy Spirit, is going to walk with you through this process. You are a child of the King of the universe! This comes with privilege and responsibility. You are loved, but it may take some time to learn how to live like you are loved.This book is for those who are taking their first steps after salvation. It is also for all of us who have heard much about Jesus, but very little about His kingdom. Jesus talked about it extensively and it may hold some surprises for you.
Welcome to the Greenhouse
Title | Welcome to the Greenhouse PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Van Gelder |
Publisher | OR Books |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1935928279 |
Welcome to the Greenhouse, an all original science fiction anthology, imagines the possibilities that climate change poses for our future – from the grim to the hopeful, the absurd to the all-too-real.