Secure Dragons Fin Soup Drafted By S.P. Somtow Rendered As Manuscript

Fin Soup: And Other Modern Siamese Fables by World Fantasy Award Winner S, P. Somtow.

Dragon's Fin Soup in the tradition of the Marx Brothers,
Eight Rowdy Tales where East and West don't meet they collide,
Eight Frightening Ruminations where nothing is as it seems, and even the unreal is an illusion,
Eight Delectable Servings that could only have sprung from the fevered mind of S, P. Somtow: the most unique writer of this, or any other, millennium

"One of the most gifted masters of colour and spectacle" Theodore Sturgeon.


"The J. D. Salinger of Siam. " George Axelrod.

The eight stories:

Dragons Fin Soup
Lottery Night
The Steel American
Chui Chai
The Bird Catcher
Diamonds Arent Forever
Fiddling for Water Buffaloes
The Last Time I Died in Venice i couldn't really get into the storytelling or the protagonists.
the narrators were mostly too selfaware for my taste not a miranda july level of selfawareness, but noticeably selfaware and the mysticism was too complete for my murakamileaning preference.
felt kind of predictable. These stories are like little side trips into a twilight zone, Somtow is a poet who effortlessly spins a pattern in his tales which make the unbelieveable commonplace and the unimaginable believeable, To read Somtow's stories is to take a journey into a world that doesn't and could never exist in the United States, Only in a reality like nevernever land where you step outside your world and greet old friends that you've never met before, can you begin to sense the subtle beauty of Somtow's literature.
The texture of his style is unforgetable and it will resonate within you, like a memorable symphony, long after you've finished, Read this just before traveling to Thailand, and found these short stories an excellent prep to understanding a little more of the culture / mindset before arriving.
Edgy, quirky stories, a quick read, Called by the Bangkok Post the Thai person known by name to most people in the world, S, P. Somtow is an author, composer, filmmaker, and international media personality whose dazzling talents and acerbic wit have entertained and enlightened fans the world over.
He was Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul in Bangkok, His grandfathers sister was a Queen of Siam, his father is a well known international lawyer and vice president of the International Academy of Human Rights.
Somtow was educated at Eton

and Cambridge, and his first career was in music, In thes while he was still in college his works were being performed on four continents and he was named representative of Thailand to the Asian Composers League and to the International Music C Called by the Bangkok Post "the Thai person known by name to most people in the world," S.
P. Somtow is an author, composer, filmmaker, and international media personality whose dazzling talents and acerbic wit have entertained and enlightened fans the world over.
He was Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul in Bangkok, His grandfather's sister was a Queen of Siam, his father is a well known international lawyer and vice president of the International Academy of Human Rights.
Somtow was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and his first career was in music, In thes while he was still in college his works were being performed on four continents and he was named representative of Thailand to the Asian Composer's League and to the International Music Commission of UNESCO.
His avant garde compositions caused controversy and scandal in his native country, and a severe case of musical burnout in the lates precipitated his entry into a second career that of author.
He began writing science fiction, but soon started to invade other fields of writing, with somebooks out now, including the clasic horror novel Vampire Junction, which defined the "rock and roll vampire" concept for thes, the Riverrun Trilogy "the finest new series of the's" Locus and the semi autobiographical memoir Jasmine Nights.
He has won or been nominated for dozens of major awards including the Bram Stoker Award, the John W, Campbell Award, the Hugo Award, and the World Fantasy Award, Somtow has also made some incursions into filmmaking, directing the cult classic The Laughing Dead and the award winning art film Ill Met by Moonlight.
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