At least here in Thailand, Jasmine Nights is one of S.P. Somtow’s most well known books, out of the fifty he has published ever since he took up writing. The story is not very difficult to understand, but the plot structure of the book is quite complex. It deals with time shifts, metaphysical dialogues...
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Title of the Book: Jasmine Nights
Author’s name: S.P. Somtow (Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul)
Genre: semi-autobiographical novel
Year when the action takes place: 1963
Setting: Bangkok, Thailand
Justin, the main character:
an inquisitive boy
“I am an alien here” (p.2)
“life is … a slide show: a compendium of perpetually frozen images, smells, sounds” (p.13)
“I manufacture my own past”...
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