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Arrival of Dawn

Post by Elite Creative Literary Agency Elite Creative Literary Agency
Publisher
Woman Publisher
Categories
Fiction
Author Name
Pensri Kiengsiri
Illustrated by
Original Language
Thailand
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Paperback
214 pages
Dimensions
ISBN / ISSN / Unique Identifier
978-974-319-673-7

Synopsis

And Mother told me that she loved me. Before she died, she told only me that she loved me. It seemed she gave me her blessings too. Though I couldn’t hear her clearly, I put the palms of my hands together and received her blessings. I realized then that I was not the loser but the winner. National Book Prize runner-up, Arrival of Dawn is the story of one daughter’s self-sacrifice. Feeling indebted to her mother, the obedient narrator spends two decades of her life running the family’s pawnshop and caring for her siblings. Having given up suitors and a career, and now in her middle age, it may be time she puts herself first. A sobering look at a fast-changing, yet tradition-... + Read more

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