Unit 3 Message of the Land 现代大学英语课件.ppt

Message of the Land  Pira Sudham Message of the Land Pira Sudham About the Author: background / works /comments / map About the Text figures of speech / word study / understanding In-class Discussion After-class Activities About the Author Pira Sudham spent his childhood in the rice fields on the Korat Plateau, helping his parents and tending a herd of buffaloes until he went to Bangkok at the age of fourteen to be a servant to monks in a Buddhist temple where he was also admitted to a school. To support himself through high school and the first year at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, he sold souvenirs to tourists until he won a New Zealand government scholarship to study English literature at Auckland University and later at Victoria University, Wellington. About the Author His writings began to appear in literary publications in New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United States before his first book, Siamese Drama (entitled Tales of Thailand in the latest editions) was published in 1983, followed by People of Esarn in 1987. He has lived for over ten years in Australia and the United Kingdom, where he wrote Monsoon Country (1988), and its sequel, The Force of Karma (2002). About the Author Pira Sudham’s literary works are concerned with social-economic-political changes occurring in Thailand. Widely read and highly acclaimed, his books have given a voice to the poor and the voiceless. Considered Thailand‘s leading English language writer, he was nominated（提名） for the 1990 Nobel prize for literature. About the Author Monsoon Country It depicts the problems of social transition in present day Thailand and gives insights into Thai life in the rural northeast. It is set in Thailand, England and Germany to convey the cultural tension between the East and the West, the clashes between the new powers and the old values, covering the span of 25 years of the socio-economic and political changes occurring in Thailand.