Married To The Demon King

"This is a book about love and marriage in contemporary Thailand," declares the preface of this charming book. It is ingeniously built around six short stories called "Tales of the Demon Folk" by Sri Daoruang, one of Thailand's leading fiction writers, that place the familiar characters of the Ramakian, the Thai epic based on the Indian Ramayana, within the Bangkok of today. By re-envisioning their relationships and adventures, she portrays husband and wife relations in Thai society, cloaked in the comforting garments of myth and laced with the kind of humor readers appreciate most--ironic, sarcastic, earthy, and compassionate.Translator Susan F. Kepner makes these tales available for the first time to English-language readers. She introduces the tales with a lively discussion of the writer and her context, retells the plotline of the classical Ramakian, and presents the translated tales, in which the demon king, contrary to expectation, is most gentle and endearing.Kepner, Susan F. is the author of 'Married To The Demon King ', published 2005 under ISBN 9789749575581 and ISBN 974957558X.