Transactions in Thai - Escapade en Thalande

Here's the first page of my short story "Transactions in Thai" translated into French by Jrme Bouchaud as "Escapade en Thalande". Previously, I posted a link to extracts from the story from thr French blog that was set up by ditions GOPE for Trois autres Malaisie, the French translation of Lovers and Strangers Revisited.

Escapade en Thalande, Robert Raymer, ditions GOPE. Cet indit vient en complment de Trois autres Malaisie.

Escapade en Thalande
Le grant du Kingman Hotel de Hat Yai scrutait les deux Occidentaux. chous dans le hall dentre, ils lisaient un journal en diagonale, discutant de leurs projets en attendant que le dluge sarrte. Ils savraient tre amricains, mais ils auraient tout aussi bien pu tre australiens, britanniques ou allemands. Leur nationalit exacte importait peu : ils taient occidentaux. La couleur de leur peau pouvait donc tre exploite, par eux-mmes et par les autochtones

Flairant la bonne affaire, le grant un Thalandais mince et affable que les deux hommes avaient dj rencontr quelques reprises dans le hall sapprocha deux le sourire aux lvres. Il plaisanta au sujet de la pluie et rit de sa propre blague. Les deux hommes restrent de marbre, lexaminant mme avec une forte dose de soupon comme ils lauraient fait avec tout autre Asiatique les approchant sans raison apparente. Il se prsenta sous le nom de Jek et voulut savoir sils avaient besoin de ses services. Tandis quils coutaient son boniment, leur attention sgarait de temps en temps vers les autres clients! de lhte l, des Malaisiens pour la plupart en juger par les journaux quils lisaient ou leur apparence. Ces derniers quils fussent malais, chinois ou indiens venaient ici pour les massages, les prestations

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Copyright Robert Raymer 2008. Titre original : Transactions in Thai
Copyright ditions GOPE, mars 2011, pour la version franaise
Traduit de langlais (tats-Unis) par Jrme Bouchaud
www.troisautresmalaisie.blogspot.com troisautresmalaisie@gmail.com

*Here is the Story Behind the Story of "Transactions in Thai". Here is the Story Behind the Story to all 17 stories from Lovers and Strangers Revisited. All but three of the stories will be in the French translation, Trois autres Malaisie.

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