![]() ![]() The majority of the story is about Anne's time in Cambodia.Echlin's writing style presents the reader to a vivid display of Cambodia, the sights and sounds of a nation trying to rebuild, and the stories of horror that continue to haunt the people Anne encounters. ![]() A decade passes with no communications between Serey and Anne, and Anne makes the decision to fly to Cambodia to find him. When the borders re-open, Serey returns to try and locate his family, leaving Anne in Canada. ![]() The story starts in the jazz bars of Montreal Canada where the narrator, Anne Greves, meets and falls in love with Serey, a Cambodian student that is in exile in Canada due to the circumstances of the Pol Pot regime and the closing of the borders of Cambodia. Disappeared is presented as a fictitious memoir set mainly in the 1970's and 80's during the Cambodian genocide, the Vitnamese occupation of Cambodia and into the start of the United Nations Transitional Authority. The Disapeared by Kim Echlin is a book that drew me in with its strong, descriptive language and the first person narrator perspective the story was written in. ![]()
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