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A sixteen year old girl falls in love with a Cambodian student. A revolutionary closes the borders of a country for four years. Families, friends, lovers disappear. Kim Echlin’s powerful new novel tells the story of Anne Greves, from Montreal, who meets Serey, a Cambodian student forced into exile when he cannot return home during Pol Pot’s time of terror. Anne and Serey meet in a jazz club where their shared passion for music turns into a passion for each other, against the will of her father. But when the borders of Cambodia open, Serey is compelled to return home, alone, to try to find his family. Left behind, and without word from her lover, Anne tries to build a new life but she cannot forget her first love. She decides to travel to the war-ravaged country that claimed Serey. What she finds there is a traumatized and courageous people struggling to create new freedoms out of the tragedy that claimed their traditional ways, their livelihood, and a seventh of their population. “Despair is an unwitnessed life,” writes Anne as she searches for the truth, about her lover, and about herself. “If we live long enough, we have to tell, or turn to stone inside.” From its first page, The

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Author

Echlin, Kim

Publisher

Hamish Hamilton Canada

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670069088

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.71 / 5 (2,400 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14