Behind the Painting and Other Stories Spirit Swami Gitananda

Swami Gitananda

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She also traces the origins of the century-old conflict between foresters and forest communities and argues that unless some kind of resolution is found

Ambassadors from Versailles in wigs and lace mounted on elephants crossing rice fields

cultural and political context and shows how Cambodia pursues order in large part through reference to her past

Behind the Painting and Other Stories Spirit Swami GitanandaTranslated 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