The Disappeared Promo

Watch a short film on the brilliant new novel by KIm Echlin. A novel of passion and tragedy set in Cambodia's killing fields.

After more than thirty years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields.
Once Anne was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she falls in love with Serey, a gentle rebel and exiled musician. She's still only sixteen when he leaves her in their Montreal flat to return to Cambodia to seek out his family in the aftermath of Pol Pot's cruel revolution. 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.
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. But there are wounds that love cannot heal, and some mysteries too dangerous to know. And when Serey disappears again, Anne discovers that the journey she must now embark upon may reveal a story she cannot bear.
Haunting, vivid, elegiac, The Disappeared is a tour de force; at once a battle cry and a piercing lamentation, for truth, for love.

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• Book
• novel
• Cambodia
• Canada
• Pol Pot
• killing fields
• literary fiction
• Kim Echlin
• Little Brown
• Abacus

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