[Thai Novel] Blind Earthworm in a Labyrinth (ไส้เดือนตาบอดในเขาวงกต, 《迷宮中的盲眼蚯蚓》)

Genre: Melodrama, Tragedy, S.E.A. Write Award

"We would likely all go extinct, none left remaining, 

if we lacked the wisdom to forget. 

To forget how difficult and painful it is to be alive. 

To forget who we are, how we used to be happy, 

how we used to suffer... 

To forget that we ever had things to remember."

Synopsis

This is a story about the shattered lives of "frayed" human beings.

It follows the tangled relationships of three orphans—Chareeya, Chalika, and Pran—who are lost in the labyrinth of their own daily lives. Instead of facing reality, they construct their own illusions. 

The novel suggests that we are all blindly wandering through a labyrinth filled with symbols and myths that bind us. The more we struggle against them, the deeper we dig our own graves, until we are left exhausted and alone in the darkness.

It is a masterful exploration of memory, love, and the "myths" (Maya) that exist everywhere around us.

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