{"id":25306,"date":"2021-05-04T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-house-of-the-raja\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T09:10:31","slug":"the-house-of-the-raja","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-house-of-the-raja\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of the Raja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten in Thailand&rsquo;s troubled Deep South, stands a dilapidated wooden palace once home to a Malay ruler, the last of his dynasty.&nbsp;Locals call it the &ldquo;House of the Raja,&rdquo; a place suffused with loss and solitude, laden with the region&rsquo;s glorious past and tragic present. Intrigued by this&nbsp;demonized,&nbsp;little-known borderland, photographer Xavier Comas chanced upon this mysterious house and felt compelled to delve into its past. The caretaker, a Muslim shaman who held rituals inside, invited the author to stay and initiated him into its hidden dimensions. As Comas builds a bond of trust with the inhabitants of the house, the missing pieces of its history gently fall into place, revealing an ancient culture long hidden and the building&rsquo;s ties to the centuries-old struggles in this contested region.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nComas&rsquo; evocative black-and-white photographs take us into a realm of hauntings, mystic powers and fading memories. 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