Books & Spoken Word

Prabda Yoon – Moving Parts

Date: Friday, Sep 7 2018
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Foyles
Price: £3
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Prabda Yoon

Prabda Yoon discusses his new short story collection, Moving Parts, with his translator Mui Poopoksakul.

His new book is his second collection of short stories out from Tilted Axis Press and a rare publication of Thai fiction translated into English.

Tilted Axis Press are a Sheffield-based independent, international and radical press committed to bringing innovative new work in translation into English for the first time.

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“In Moving Parts, Prabda Yoon has created an essential imaginary of the twenty-first century metropolis; drily funny and deeply felt, vivid and vertiginous”
— David Hayden

“Yoon’s masterful stories unfold the drama of modern life, with all the stylistic resonances of the miraculous.”
— Eka Kurniawan

“Sleek, supple and soaring — in this extraordinary translation, Prabda Yoon’s stories command your attention”
— Eley Williams

 

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