The beautifully spare narrative is daringly imaginative in the details, drawing the reader deep inside the wounded capital city. There she comes face to face with the terrible fallout of the collapsed Khmer Rouge dictatorship.
Serey's family got him out of Pol Pot's Cambodia, although he is waiting to be able to return and find them Anne's father, a successful engineer of prosthetics, does not approve of Anne's exotic, older boyfriend, and when, as her father predicted, Serey leaves her, disappearing for 11 years, Anne journeys to Phnom Penh to find him. Anne Greves, a motherless 16-year-old student, meets a Cambodian refugee, Serey, working as a math instructor amid the heady music scene of late-1970s Montreal, and they fall irredeemably in love. ) derives a powerful, transcendent love story from the Cambodian genocide.
Author's Third Novel.Canadian novelist Echlin ( Elephant Winter And when Serey disappears again, Anne discovers a story she cannot bear. But there are wounds that love cannot heal, and some mysteries too dangerous to know. Against all odds the lovers are reunited, and in a political country where tranquil rice paddies harbour the bones of the massacred, Anne pieces together a new life with Serey. She's still only 16 when he leaves her in their Montreal flat to return to Cambodia And, after a decade without word, she abandons everything to search for him in the bars of Phnom Penh, a city traumatized by the Khmer Rouge slaughter. Defying fierce opposition, she falls in love with Serey, a gentle rebel and exiled musician.
Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields. Light rubbing on the corners price intact aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Blue boards decorated in yellow on the front panel and spine headband orange endpapers.
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