Cobra, Wa-nit Jarungkit-anan, 1987
When wealthy, foreign-educated businessman Chanachon falls in love with tourist guide Meikkhala, it is not the wily if flighty urbanite that fascinates him but rather the quintessential female owner of a traditional Thai house in the countryside, to which he keeps coming back against all reason in a fumbling quest for his own past. Neither the resident cobra in her house nor the resident wife in his nor Meikkhala’s uncouth former suitor take well to the affair, though. As tension builds up and the cobra slithers and strikes, this uncommon love story which derides the traditional elements of romance offers unforgettable contrasting portraits of two typically upper-class Thai women in love whose upbringing and social status pit them against each other. Yet to be published.