Books by Kukrit Pramoj

Four Reigns

Kukrit Pramoj

Through the long life of Mae Phloi, from a girl sent to serve in the royal Inner Court to a grandmother in the Second World War, Kukrit Pramoj tells the story of Siam across the reigns of four kings and its passage from old kingdom to modern nation. Bangkok is the whole book: the Grand Palace and its Inner Court where Phloi grows up, the canal-laced city of the old capital, the Chao Phraya river, and the modernising, then war-shadowed, city of her old age.

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