Love, death and laughter in the city of different angels: S.P. Somtow’s Bangkok Gothic
S.P. Somtow’s novel The Other City of Angels (2008) portrays Bangkok as a Gothic metropolis: a city stuck between illusion and reality, where dreams and nightmares come to life, simultaneously backwards and modern, spiritual and material, and full of peculiarities that make one doubt whether such a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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James Cook University
2019-05-01
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Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3688/3556 |