Jackie Thomae

Mar 28, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Tobias Carroll |Kalpana Raina |Saneh Sangsuk |Jackie Thomae

From Deep Vellum | The Understory by Saneh Sangsuk, translated from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul | Fiction | 196 pages | ISBN 9781646052752 | US$17.95What the publisher says: “The lovable, yarn-spinning monk Luang Paw Tien, now in his nineties, is the last person in his village to bear witness to the power and plenitude of the jungle before agrarian and then capitalist life took over his community.