Books: Karma and drama spring to life in Thailand's central south
BANGKOK -- There is a growing library of English-language fiction in Thailand, but the novels are overwhelmingly located in Bangkok, and many focus on contemporary crime or fall into the "girlie-bar fiction" category. Other offerings include some science fiction such as "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi, or historical fiction focusing on the 15th-century to 18th-century Ayutthaya kingdom.