"That night, the rain poured and wind howled, raindrops crashing like solid objects onto the ground and water. A passenger boat from Ban Phaen to Bangkok, packed with people, pressed on through the current amidst the rising clamour of the rain and storm." The boat capsizes in the torrent, and washed up on the shore the next morning are the sodden bodies of the many passengers who lost their lives. Thus begins M. R. Kukrit Pramoj's modern classic, set in the Thailand of the early 1950s. The life of each passenger who ...
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"That night, the rain poured and wind howled, raindrops crashing like solid objects onto the ground and water. A passenger boat from Ban Phaen to Bangkok, packed with people, pressed on through the current amidst the rising clamour of the rain and storm." The boat capsizes in the torrent, and washed up on the shore the next morning are the sodden bodies of the many passengers who lost their lives. Thus begins M. R. Kukrit Pramoj's modern classic, set in the Thailand of the early 1950s. The life of each passenger who perished is retraced from birth, revealing a complex web of experiences and emotions. Could their past actions have brought them to this karmic end?, the writer asks. Was death a retribution, a fulfillment, a reward, an escape, or merely the end to a long life?
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