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Bangkok in Times of Love and War Paperback – April 15, 2020

by Claire Keefe-Fox (Author)
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1941. War is raging in Europe and now sweeps through Southeast Asia.

In Bangkok, Kate Fallon, an American nurse, who came to Thailand to leave her past of poverty and a broken heart behind, and Lawrence Gallet, a wealthy English journalist, are trapped in the chaos of conflict, believing their love can overcome their differences before being torn apart.

Lawrence flees to China to escape the advancing Japanese army, while the net closes slowly around Kate, who has remained behind, increasingly threatened and forced to hide her identity.

A sweeping saga moving from a Thailand uneasily poised between Japan and the west to the ravaged battlegrounds of Burma and India, from the charity ward of the Bangkok hospital to bombed airfields, from the Thai domestic resistance movement to the deadly jungles of the Arakan, Bangkok in Times of Love and War is the story of life and death, passion, loyalty and loss, and of a man and a woman caught up in the upheaval of history.
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  1. Print length
    508 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    River Books
  4. Publication date
    April 15, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1.2 x 8.34 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    6164510414
  7. ISBN-13
    978-6164510418
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Claire Keefe-Fox was born in Italy of French and American parents and grew up between Europe and the USA, however, she always felt a special affinity for Asia. Her love affair with Thailand began when she saw a replica of the Bang Pa In pavilion at the world expo in Brussels and she has been coming to Thailand almost every year since 1975. She has written three novels in French and one in English, Siamese Tears. After serving for four years as director of Alliance Francaise for Thailand, she returned to university in Paris to complete her degree in Thai language and studies, constantly trying to deepen her knowledge of the country which she feels is her second home, and now divides her time between France and Bangkok.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ River Books (April 15, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 508 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 6164510414
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-6164510418
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.17 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.2 x 8.34 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Banning Repplier
5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read!
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2020
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Bangkok in Times of Love and War is totally absorbing. I was unable to put it down, though I forced myself to read slowly because I didn't want it to end. Claire Keefe-Fox brilliantly and seamlessly incorporates a wealth of fascinating and well-researched historical fact about a turbulent and dangerous time, which few people know much about, and brings it all to vivid life with believable, fleshed-out characters (both real and fictional) whom we truly care about. Her attention to detail -- from the nuances of Thai culture to intricate hospital procedures to the heart-stopping horrors of World War II to the often humorous vying of men and nations for power and position -- creates a world that the reader can completely inhabit. I couldn't recommend this book more highly!
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Paul Wedel
4.0 out of 5 stars A romantic novel of World War II set amid the moral complexities of Japanese-occupied Bangkok.
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2020
Claire Keefe-Fox, a French-American writer with a degree in Thai studies, has written a novel of World War II that sweeps the reader from Siam to China, Burma and India. The main protagonists are an Irish-American nurse and a British journalist and intelligence agent, but she also creates Thai characters, a courageous doctor and an upper class lady, that ring true.

The story begins in pre-war Bangkok with the unlikely romance between Lawrence Gallet, the privileged Englishman, and Kate Fallon, the lower-class American who has fled a broken romance to serve with French nuns at St. Louis Hospital. Gallet, with little direction in life, is in Bangkok trying to write a book about the 1932 overthrow of the traditional Thai monarchy. This allows Keefe-Fox, a former director of the Alliance Francais in Bangkok, to imagine the interactions among the leading Thai politicians – Prime Minister Pibulsonggram and his rival, Pridi Banomyong.

Keefe-Fox paints a believably gritty picture of the hardships of life in Bangkok under Japanese wartime domination. There are shortages of food and medicine and fears of the Kempeitai, the ruthless military police of the Japanese Army. A Japanese doctor discovers Kate’s nationality and threatens to expose her as an enemy national. He forces her to serve him as his nurse and sex slave, but also helps her send food packets to prisoners and steals medicines for her to use at the hospital. The war brings death and hardships to Bangkok as Fallon struggles to survive.

Dr. Sumet, one of the hospital doctors, is drawn into the Seri Thai resistance that operates under the secret leadership of Pridi. At the same time, Gallet is working as a journalist and interacting with newsmen covering the war in Southeast Asia.

Keefe-Fox does an excellent job of weaving her tale between her fictional characters and historical personages, such as Vinegar Joe Stillwell, Pridi, and a variety of well-known American and British journalists. She manages to give us a feel for the confusion and horror of the war as well as the difficult moral choices people are forced to make under the stress of conflict.

Keefe-Fox is the author of the novel Siamese Tears, which brings to life the French aggression against Siam in the late 1800s through the eyes of a British-French woman in Bangkok. She has also written three novels about Thailand in French.
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