How could author Kim Echlin wrote a book about Cambodia ? Have she been in Cambodia? It might be a lot of works for her to get all things about Cambodia.
I am impress with this book.
Kim Echlin is an author, teacher and documentary writer. She has produced television for the CBC and written for independent producers. She currently teaches at the School for Continuing Studies, University of Toronto.
Echlin is the author of several books, notably Elephant Winter, Dagmar’s Daughter and Inanna: From the Myths of Ancient Sumer. The Disappeared is her third novel. Kim Echlin lives in Toronto.
The Disappeared is an elegiac, beautifully told memory-tale of obsessive love. A teenaged Canadian woman falls in love with a young Cambodian refugee; after the fall of Pol Pot, her lover abandons her and returns home in search of his lost family.
She follows him to Cambodia and takes the reader with her into one of the darkest chapters of 20th century history. On one level, the novel is a young Canadian woman’s bildungsroman; on another, a profoundly moving account of the genocidal horrors of the Cambodian killing fields and its terrible aftermath.
Written in elegant, spare prose, The Disappeared confronts one of the most painful conflicts of our time; the collision between our private, personal desires and the brutal, dehumanizing facts of modern history.
Will look to buy this book.
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Hey, thanks for the book recommedation, will also try to get this book, sounds very interesting.
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