Behind the Painting and Other Stories Spirit Chandler has combined his scholarship

Chandler has combined his scholarship with his flair for writing to bring the history of that tragic country alive

This bold and incisive account describes how President Thein Sein’s reforming government emerged from the previous military regime

four months shy of his 24th year

Linnaeus University

Behind the Painting and Other Stories Spirit Chandler has combined his scholarshipTranslated from the Thai and introduced by David Smyth Behind the Painting is the story of Nopphon, a Thai student studying in Japan, who becomes infatuated with the lovely Mom Ratchawong Kirati, an older Thai woman visiting the country with her husband. Their intimacy grows, and by the time the older couple returns to Thailand, Nopphon can barely contain his feelings for her. The novel reflects postwar Thai society in the vanity of the aristocracy