Souvankham Thammavongsa's K is not pronounced

A little girl at school stubbornly pronounces the silent K in the word Knife . A former boxer becomes a chiropodist. A woman dreams of soap operas while plucking chickens. A father packs furniture for houses he will never live in. The K is not pronounced welcomes the utopias, failures, loves and small acts of resistance of wanderers and refugees, who try to find their bearings far from home; these essential workers search the underbelly of the world. We meet benevolent children, wounded men and feverish women. They want to live. And in these stories, they live brilliantly. Fiercely.

Tender and fiercely alive, the book The K is not pronounced presents Souvankham Thammavongsa as one of the most innovative voices of his generation.