Vorlese-Ensemble presents: FARANGS – Reading with singing

In his acclaimed debut, the young author Rattawut Lapcharoensap, born in Chicago and raised in Bangkok, tells of a Thailand we don't know: far from exotic stereotypes and very close to modern life.


For example, in the award-winning story Farangs, the young narrator falls in love with an American tourist who, like all farangs – tourists – in Thailand, is only looking for elephants and sex, but then surprisingly makes the acquaintance of a domestic pig named Clint Eastwood. Lapcharoensap always shows the reader what lies behind the apparent tourist paradise. Lapcharoensap dares to show us a Thailand that has only its geographical boundaries and beautiful landscapes in common with what we consider a holiday paradise.

With great warmth, intelligence and humour, his stories demonstrate what literature can do: bring us closer to a world and people whose lives we previously had only a vague idea about.


(IN GERMAN)