The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
I told him I needed to go to all the nightclubs of Phnom Penh. I chose him because when he stepped forward, the others fell back. The light in Mau’s eyes was a pinprick through black paper. They pushed in against me, trying to gain my eye, to separate me from the crowd. They drove bicycles and tuk tuks, rickshaws and motos.
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I chose him at the Russian market from a crowd of drivers with soliciting eyes. Mau was a small man with a scar across his left cheek. The following is an excerpt from The Disappeared: “If we live long enough, we have to tell, or turn to stone inside.” “Despair is an unwitnessed life,” writes Anne as she searches for the truth, about her lover, and about herself. They meet in a Montreal jazz club during Pol Pot’s time of terror, before the lover, Serey, must return home to find out what happened to his family. It tells the story of a love affair between a young girl in Montreal and a Cambodian student. Kin Echlin’s third novel is an inaugural title in Penguin Canada’s new literary imprint, Hamish Hamilton, and has been sold in 17 countries.