Showing Time: A Thai novel (ThaiFiction) by Chart Korbjitti

Take half a dozen old women, a monk, sundry vendors,

a few kids, a movie director, a madman and a half-wit;

add a soda bottle and the silver shadow of lotuses;

shake well; and presto:

rich and taut and sweet and tart, Time,

crowned by the 1994 SEA Write Award,

is a masterly cocktail of laughs and tears.


A must-read for all over forty

– and for all those of all ages who want to understand

the changing values of Thai society

and the unchanging urges and mores of man.