{"subjects": ["Fiction, short stories (single author)", "Thailand, fiction", "Translations into English", "FICTION / General"], "key": "/works/OL20162007W", "title": "Arid Dreams", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7637714A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [8807839], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for more but remain suspended in routine. They bide their time, waiting for an extraordinary event to end their stasis. A politician's wife imagines her life had her husband's accident been fatal, a man on death row requests that a friend clear up a misunderstanding with a prostitute, and an elevator attendant feels himself wasting away while trapped, immobile, at his station all day."}, "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-10-04T20:40:59.461826"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-25T11:37:27.432123"}}