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River of Time

By Jon Swain

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Digital
Year
2010
ISBN
9781407072807, 1407072803
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
372 kB (380525 bytes)
Pages
304\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-06-29 00:38:37

Description

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by mangoes, bananas and coconuts, and the exquisite women, the odours of opium, and the region's other face - that of violence and corruption.

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