The Act (Prapruet-tikarn)
By Nithi Nithiveragul
...A chronicle of love, memory, and liberty.
...A narrative of struggle, resistance, and the void.
A political dissident flees the chaos of a government crackdown to meet a comrade on the city’s outskirts. As the present moment unfolds, the protagonist begins to fade from reality—only to find another life in a parallel world constructed from his own traumatic memories.
This parallel realm is governed by an order indistinguishable from our own: a world of "officers," "enforcers," and rigid ideologies designed to preserve the state by crushing all resistance. In this city, whenever the Sovereign’s proclamations ring out, the populace must freeze into a "waxwork" stillness. Every movement ceases; the metropolis becomes a ghost town devoid of life. Only when the voice falls silent do the citizens resume the winding of their own clocks.
The protagonists of these two intersecting timelines share a singular fate: possessing thoughts deemed "dangerous" by the state. They must fight to ensure their voices become "voices that count." The Act serves as a haunting simulation of the refugee experience—at once a political fugitive and a man seeking sanctuary from a reality too agonizing to endure.
Nithi Nithiveragul delivers a searing defense of the disenfranchised, lending power to the screams that have long been muffled by the silence of the state.
Details
▪️Format : Paperback
▪️Piyavit Tepumnuaysakul : Editor
▪️Designed by ● SM STUDIO | Warapon Suriya ●
▪️Published : March 2018
▪️Length : 180 pages
▪️ISBN : 978-616-7196-83-1
▪️Dimensions (cm) : 10.8 x 17.8
▪️Price : 200 THB
