{"product_id":"ghosts-of-the-red-soil","title":"Ghosts of the Red Soil","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-woocommerce-product-details alignwide is-style-minimal\" style=\"margin-block: 1.2rem 0px; max-width: var(--wp--style--global--wide-size); color: #191919; font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans Devanagari', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.1px; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important;\" data-block-name=\"woocommerce\/product-details\" data-hide-tab-title=\"true\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-tabs wc-tabs-wrapper\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"tab-description\" class=\"woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--description panel entry-content wc-tab\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-wrap: pretty;\"\u003eThailand is haunted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-wrap: pretty;\"\u003eIn its forests, fields, factories, prisons and crowded streets, the dead linger beside the living: insurgents, activists, peasants and workers consumed by state violence and the machinery of capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-wrap: pretty;\"\u003eDrawing on a decade of encounters across Thailand, Kay Young combines first-person ethnography, oral history and fragmentary essays to reveal how history survives in bodies, families, songs, rumours and silences. From abandoned communist strongholds and the killing fields of Isaan to Bangkok’s air-conditioned towers and sweltering buses, Ghosts of the Red Soil portrays a nation built through unequal exchange and sustained by sacrifices routinely forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-wrap: pretty;\"\u003eYet resistance endures—in village fires, karaoke rooms, roadside restaurants and whispered conversations. Lyrical, unsettling and fiercely humane, this is not conventional history but an exploration of what the past feels like when it has never truly passed. Its ghosts are history’s unfinished business: extinguished lives, inherited memories and dreams that refuse to die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"lw-single-page-creators\" style=\"margin-block: 1.2rem 0px; max-width: var(--wp--style--global--wide-size); display: flex; flex-flow: wrap; justify-content: flex-start; gap: 1%; color: #191919; font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans Devanagari', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.1px; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Leftword Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67782291620077,"sku":"LWB0001","price":220.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0355\/1415\/5141\/files\/eDnhmpicXD.jpg?v=1792058264","url":"https:\/\/rekhtabooks.com\/hi\/products\/ghosts-of-the-red-soil","provider":"Rekhta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}