![]() Anne Greves is a Canadian language expert who recapitulates her life story as a work of memory, a letter to the dead. This book is a miracle of economy whose short sentences and ellipses often draw on the powerful brevity of short-story technique. It tests erotic and familial love against distinctions of nationality: "People say, It is their country, let them tell it. ![]() ![]() When Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American in 1955, he bore witness to western imperialist blood-guilt in Asian atrocities The Disappeared is first and foremost a love story. To write such a testament is to dip one's pen into the dark ink of the obscene. In an epigraph to The Disappeared, the Canadian writer quotes survivor Vann Nath, a witness at the tribunal: "Tell others." What can a western writer legitimately or authoritatively tell in a work of fiction, especially a love story? We were not there we neither saw nor suffered. ![]() Cambodia's wounds are absolutely fresh and raw: the bones of the dead still work their way to the surface. R eaders of Kim Echlin's electrifying new novel, set in the Khmer Rouge killing fields of 1970s Cambodia, can hardly help but be aware of the UN-backed tribunal on Pol Pot's genocide, now in session. ![]()
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