Pensri kiengsiri biography for kids
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Oraphan is the eldest of four siblings in a fractured Chinese-Thai family and yet, via her domineering widowed mother and the laziness and inability of her brother and sisters to look after themselves, she must keep the whole family going with an endless series of personal sacrifices, while all the while wishing for escape and the parental permission necessary to marry someone.
This is more a novel about understanding yourself and the role that life has given you than it is about the seemingly endless family arguments along the way that lead Oraphan to the peaceful conclusion and decision that she finally makes for herself. For example, her discomfort about the family pawnshop business needs to be put aside in order to take over the running of it, as does her wish to marry first one man and then much later a second, both of which come to nothing, simply because her immediate family is in greater need. She is a woman who takes on more than one person could reasonably be expected to bear. She finds an exit route eventually, but it’s not the way out that Western readers may be used to reading about, or might expect for such a patient and self-sacrificing woman who has been denied the pleasures in life that her siblings take for granted.
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The sky so near / written and translated by Pensri Kiengsiri
- Bib ID:
- 6338941
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pensri Kiengsiri, 1931-, author, translator
- Uniform Title:
- Fā klai thalē kwāng. English
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Description:
- Bangkok, Thailand : Praphansarn Publishing, 2010
- ©2010
- 549 pages ; 19 cm
- ISBN:
- Summary:
A historical romance saga set in Siam and Malaya during colonial times.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Fā klai thalē kwāng.
- Originally published in Thai: 1995.
- Translated from the Thai.
- Awards:
- National Book Prize runner up 1995.
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