Time: A Thai novel

Take half a dozen old women, a monk, sundry vendors, 

a few kids, a movie director, a madman and a half-wit; 

add a soda bottle and the silver shadow of lotuses; 

shake well; and presto:

rich and taut and sweet and tart, Time,

crowned by the 1994 SEA Write Award,

is a masterly cocktail of laughs and tears. 

A must-read for all over forty

– and for all those of all ages who want to understand 

the changing values of Thai society 

and the unchanging urges and mores of man.