My Kind of Girl

My Kind of GirlA modern day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctor face an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each other their own experiences of the vagaries of the human

four strangers from different walks of life — a contractor

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today

One of Thailand’s best-known and most highly regarded novels

Why is this

art and culture

Inspired by the work of the simple

radical novel

and translating through careful and illuminating discussion of the works of Bakhtin

In The Identity Trap

its rampant individualism and general social chaos

weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy as well as her own search for love and truth

seeking truth in great literature