Bangkok Post published a piece 'Myth, love and blind earthworms' - a book review of Veeraporn Nitiprapha's award-winning novel. Veeraporn had been announced as The SEA Write Award winner last October with her debut novel, A Blind Earthworm In a Labyrinth (the original title, Saiduan Tabod Nai Khaowongkot).
Reading the review, it seems to me the novel is more to popular romance novel than a literary one. It has all ingradient for a light genre reading. But in the other hand, the reviewer remind us to a background of writing process which had a connection with 2010 the Ratchaprasong crackdown of post-Red Shirt protesting.
Reading the review, it seems to me the novel is more to popular romance novel than a literary one. It has all ingradient for a light genre reading. But in the other hand, the reviewer remind us to a background of writing process which had a connection with 2010 the Ratchaprasong crackdown of post-Red Shirt protesting.
On one level, the book is pure soap opera, gripping and entertaining. Reading the book twice or more, however, it seems it has been written for the sole purpose of mocking itself...But in other hand, the review showes us how Thailand's SEA Write Award committe constructed a good of commercialized mechanism to promote the award.
... The novel was written exactly according to the structure we see in every soap opera after the evening news. Whether it's social or political, some of us tend to have a set of beliefs and myths trusted.
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