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Nopporn, a Thai student studying in Japan, is tasked with hosting a distinguished old family friend and his new wife, the beautiful Lady Kirati. Despite their age difference, and despite the ties of fidelity and propriety that bind them, Nopporn and Kirati are inexorably drawn to each other. First published in 1937, this romantic novel lays bare the strictures, contradictions and possibilities of post-war Thai society, and evokes the poignancy of surviving a doomed love.

Brings together the popular Thai writer's most highly acclaimed novel with three short stories highlighting the plight of the underclass. This is the story of a Thai student studying in Japan who becomes infatuated with an older Thai woman. It reflects post-war Thai society in the vanity of the aristocracy and the pragmatism of the new elite.