‘Citizen
Dog’ combines elements of surrealism, magical realism
and satire to create an innovative and distinctive take
on the lives of people working in modern day Bangkok.
Her quirky characters move through a chaotic world.
Using minimal dialogue, short and to-the-point vocabulary
the author achieves a style which accurately reflects
the tragic comic scenario in which the forces of capitalism
has drives the constant sense of change and common people
struggle to keep up with the latest concepts and lifestyles.
Set in this time of transition, where dreams become
more important than love and notions of good and bad
are impermanent, this short novel is imaginative, original
and hilarious.
In ‘Citizen Dog’ the hero
naively ventures through a world in which his grandmother
is reborn a wall lizard, motorcycle helmets fall with
rain, people have tails, dogs put on clothes. He loses
his finger in a tin of canned fish and retrieves another
in a supermarket, and amongst this fascinating, strange
and crazy setting he finds love and we find beauty,
and discover that everything is possible.
‘The more we want something, the less
likely we will find it… but when we stop looking, it
finds us.’
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here to read an excerpt from Citizen Dog.
Click here
to read an excerpt from Un citoyen de pedigree
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