The Sad Part Was

About the author

The author of multiple story collections, novels and screenplays, Prabda Yoon is also a translator (of classics by Salinger and Nabokov), independent publisher (of books both originally written in and translated into Thai), graphic designer, and filmmaker. Having lived in the USA from the ages of 14 to 26, he speaks fluent English and is at home moving between the cultures.Mui Poopoksakul is a lawyer-turned-translator. She grew up in Bangkok and Boston, and practiced law in New York City before returning to the literary field. She is the translator of Prabda Yoon’s The Sad Part Was (2017) and Moving Parts (2018), both winners of a PEN Translates award, and of Duanwad Pimwana’s Arid Dreams (2020) and Bright (2019).

Product details

• Authors: Prabda Yoon
• Assisted by: Mui Poopoksakul (Translation)
• Publisher: Turnaround
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2017
• EAN: 9781911284062
• ISBN: 978-1-911284-06-2
• Weight: 240 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Science Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general