![]() For a decade Anne hears nothing, learns to speak Khmer, and waits. When Serey learns the Cambodian border has re-opened after the Vietnamese invasion, he leaves Montreal to search for his missing family. They fall deeply in love and seem bound together, since Serey is exiled from his family while Anne's life has been shaped by losing her mother. ![]() As her protagonist, Anne Greves, asks, "why do some people live a comfortable life and others live one that is horror-filled?"Īnswering that question becomes Anne's quest after she meets, in Montreal aged 16, a Cambodian refugee and musician named Serey. But when the Cambodian border opens up for only a short time, Serey returns to find his family. Anne meets Serey-a Cambodian refugee-in MontrEal when she is just 16 years old. ![]() ![]() The Canadian novelist Kim Echlin has written a love story that exposes in terrible detail the consequences for generations of Cambodians of living through "Year Zero". Talented novelist Kim Echlin pens this 'powerful, transcendent love story' (Publishers Weekly) about two young lovers torn apart by political turmoil. Despite everything written about Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia (1975-1979), it is still possible to be deeply shocked by stories of the two million who died in the killing fields, were tortured or simply disappeared. ![]()
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