About this work of fiction
火爆佳人 = You are the only one by Kim A Echlin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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 Echlins 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 Pots 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 Disap
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kim A Echlin
- Publisher
- Toronto: Hamish Hamilton Canada
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789867140883
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance