Jon Swain wrote on his book:

There is something about the Mekong which, even years later, make me want to sit down beside it and watch my whole life go by.

You can imagine how many attachments that have been penetrated into this war correspondent journalist? Jon Swain has recently back to Cambodia with few others journalists to pay respect to those journalists killed during the war.

I have asked in my previous post What Kind Of Relation Do You Have With Cambodia

I got few interesting comments from people that have visited and left Cambodia with little or much of broken heart, (meaning they don’t want to leave the country).

Now there are two more books about Cambodia, studied especially to the Khmer Rouge regime.

1. The Bophana - Love in the time of the Khmer Rouge by Elizabeth Becker

Bophana - a book by Elizabeth Becker - Image Credit: Expat Advisory Services

The book is launching the time I am writing this post. Elizabeth Becker has reported on international and national affairs for more than three decades as a correspondent for the New York Times and Washington Post, most recently specializing in trade, development and agriculture. She is the author of “WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER” (1986), a history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, which includes her rare interview of Pol Pot.

The Bophana is her second book about Cambodia. Bophana is a victim of the S-21. Her love letters was found at S-21. I can imagine the book will explore the details of her love to her husband. They both have been killed at S-21.

I am not sure how much you interesting in S-21, if you do, go for the book.

2. Love and Dread in Cambodia - a book by Peg LeVine

Photo credit to Andy’s Cambodia

Peg LEVINE is a Senior Research Fellow/Clinical Psychologist at Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. As a sculptor, LeVine generated ceramic, wax and bronze figures to illustrate the aftermath embedded in the survivors’ descriptions.

You might heard the story of 100 couples wedding at the same time in Khmer Rouge regime. The wedding is arranged by Angkar. Those men and women hardly know each other and there’s no connection of love between them.

They married in one night and have a family for years to come. Some of them have a good family, some of them are not. A lot of couple still feeling good to each other even the marriage at that time were not come from love.

I not yet read the book. If I have time I will join the launch ceremony that will happen on Thursday 29 April 2010 at 6pm at Monument Book.

Keep you update if I find something interesting about Cambodia. I am sure there are more and more. You can come back later to make sure about this.

Nice weekend.