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For the Sake of All Living Things
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s
This book covers Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, as well as delving into Cambodian culture.
- Location(s): Angkor (Siem Reap)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1220 AD
Angkor. 1220AD. The most powerful empire in the history of Southeast Asia is at the height of its glory. In the distant province of Champa Angkor’s greatest general, Davendra, has crushed a rebellion. Ignoring his son’s advice, Davendra commits...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Second half twentieh Century
Three women struggle to survive in this savage account of Vietnam’s Maoist-style land reform of the 1950s and its aftermath. Hang, a young woman, tells of the hardship, chaos and disillusionment it sowed, dividing her family and shattering the...
- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Malaysia (Malaya), Montreal
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1970s onwards
Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various; written in late 1900s
For many people, Vietnam remains a war not a country. This text explores the country behind the myths and images, looking at Vietnam’s literature, history, art and architecture, politics, religion and food. The author shows the emerging popular culture...
- Location(s): Angkor (Siem Reap), Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 12th Century
Now with Temple of a Thousand Faces, he brings to life the legendary temple of Angkor Wat, an unrivaled marvel of ornately carved towers and stone statues. There, in a story set nearly a thousand years ago, an empire...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
An excellent novel in the jungles of Vietnam, during the war. A poignant description.
The Cambodian Book of the Dead
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and second half 20th century
Private eye and former war reporter, Maier is sent to Cambodia to track down the missing heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. His search leads him into the darkest corners of the country’s history, through the Killing Fields of...
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/Modern
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. Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she...
- Location(s): Cambodia, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back at the 1980s
One starless night Janie’s childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up...
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