Lord of the land

Against a background of frenzied land speculation
where all sorts of dirty tricks are par for the course,
who of Abbot Nian and Kharm the Medium
will emerge as the Lord of the Land?

The increasingly
heated competition
between the main protagonists
of Snakes and The Medium
offers a disturbing insight
into the pains of the
Thai countryside
in the 1990s.

By the winner of the Year 2000 SEA Write Award
for his novel on cloning, Immortal.