After the Rain Abates, a Boat Sails Across the Ocean
By Chanya Amnatphanphong
This collection presents eighteen short stories that are, in our estimation, profoundly romantic—yet they unfold within a landscape of intricate politics and the murky influence of clandestine powers. Chanya’s prose is deliberate, lyrical, and lingering; it moves with a rhythmic stillness that exerts a strange, magnetic pull upon the reader.
The narrative operates under a haunting existential premise:
"In this world, no secrets remain. There is only the unatoned truth—a truth known by everyone, known by us, and known by the world, yet utterly devoid of evidence."
'After the Rain Abates' serves as a vessel for the myriad memories we carry, inviting the reader to interrogate the "Master Power" that blankets and dictates our lives, our psyche, and our collective remembrance. Chanya’s writing is at once warmly romantic and precariously fragile—fragmented and ready to shatter.
It falls upon us, the readers, to gather the scattered shards of reality and forge them into a semblance of "the ultimate truth" before all is lost to the void.
The structure of the work mirrors the atmospheric transformation of a storm: the heavy stillness before the deluge, the chaotic erasure of the world during the downpour, and finally, the clarity that emerges once the rain abates—where the murky shadows dissipate, and the movement of life begins anew with startling precision.
Details
▪️Format : Paperback
▪️Manot Phromsing : Foreword
▪️Piyavit Tepumnuaysakul : Editor-in-Chief
▪️Aekkasit Thiamtham : Editor
▪️Designed by ● SM STUDIO | Chirawat Rotaim ●
▪️Published : April 2023
▪️Length : 288 pages
▪️ISBN : 978-616-562-052-9
▪️Dimensions (cm) : 10.8 x 17.8
▪️Price : 300 THB
