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Sightseeing
This is how we count the days. June: the Germans come to the islands — football cleats, big T-shirts, thick tongues — speaking like spitting.
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July: the Italians, the French, the British, the Americans. The Italians like pad thai, its affinity with spaghetti. They like fabrics, sun glasses, leather sandals. The French like plump girls, rambutans, disco music, baring their breasts.
The British are here to work on their pasty complexions, their penchant for hashish. Americans are the fattest, the stingiest of the bunch.
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So starts the first story in Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap, a series of short stories (and one novella) first published in 2004. The stories aren’t all about stereotypes of foreigners, but some of them do touch on the tricky relationship between the tourist and the touristed.
There’s a delicate story about first love between a young Thai boy and a Burmese immigrant who lives illegally in a shack next to his apartment building, which ends in x