The novel unfolds through his letters to his beloved mother in China. When the original Thai version of Letters from Thailand appeared in Bangkok in 1969, it was promptly awarded the SEATO Prize for Thai Literature. Letters from Thailand is the story of Tan Suang U, a young man who leaves China to make his fortune in Thailand at the close of World War II, and ends up marrying, raising a family, and operating a successful business. This new English translation reveals it as one of Thailand's most entertaining and enduring modern novels, and one of the few portrayals of the immigrant Chinese experience in urban Thailand. Published in 1969, this epistolary novel was awarded the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) international prize for literature in 1970. When the original Thai version of Letters from Thailand appeared in Bangkok in 1969, it was promptly awarded the SEATO Prize for Thai Literature. Botans Letters from Thailand is a fictionalized account of a much more recent episode in the history of ethnic Chinese immigration to and then slow settlement in Thailand.
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