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The Edge of the World
Chomumbhar, a small republic on the Indian Ocean, is unknown to the rest of the world until President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrive on a state visit to the island in 1962. Chomumbhars colonial past, its autocratic government, and its ensuing alliance with America over four decades mark the lives of its citizens.
Paperback, 188 pages
Published
September 1st 2007
by Mirare Press
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I finished this slender book last weekend after having met the author at a writers conference. Through a series of brilliantly political, interconnected short stories, the novel is a tragic epitaph for a fictional Southeast Asian island nation that Westernized during Kennedy's presidency, and through a strangling forty-year relationship with the US, found itself on the wrong end of the military-industrial complex.
The novel's final moments represent the very worst of cynical American foreign pol...more
The novel's final moments represent the very worst of cynical American foreign pol...more
John F Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy journeyed to the small island of Chomumbhar in 1962. Theirs was a state visit designed to elicit an alliance with the Americans from the peoples of this republic in the Indian Ocean. The journey was not a wasted one. Press coverage of the visit placed Chomumbhar on the world map and American military formed a coalition that lasted for over four decades.
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Postcolonialism is at heart of Gail Vida Hamburg’s tale of fear, betrayal, love, discrimination...more
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