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  <title><![CDATA[The Disappeared]]></title>
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  <default_description>This story of passionate love between a Canadian and her Cambodian lover evokes their tumultuous relationship in a world of colliding values. Set against the backdrop of horrific loss, these two self-exiled lovers struggle to recreate themselves in a world that rejects their hopes. Spare, unrelenting, and moving, The Disappeared is an unforgettable consideration of love, language, justice, and memory set against the backdrop of the killing fields of Pol Pot.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">3</original_publication_day>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kim Echlin]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is the story of a young canadian girl who falls in love with a cambodian in exile only to lose him (and find) him in Camboida.  It's wonderfully written and hard to put down.  I liked the Montreal part of the story and the description of their young love very much.  Once we shift to the cambodi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59799087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was amazing. Beautifully written, the novel follows a Canadian named Anne as she travels to Cambodia to find her lost lover after the genocide in Cambodia. While very hard-hitting, and as so many others have said, haunting, I could not put this book down. I grew very attached to Anne as she ret...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74142798">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hope this book gets more press as it was an exquisite read. I know it won't appeal to everyone, but I absolutely loved it. It's a very intimate story, told in first person. Most of it reads like poetry and is shared between the narrator and her lover, during their initial meeting in Montreal and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50694328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67982829">
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    <body><![CDATA[Short book, quick read, but the story will stay with you for a long time.  Not your typical girl meets boy, falls in love book.  More like Canadian girl meets Cambodian boy in exile and falls in love only to lose him when he returns home. Of course she eventually goes to Cambodia to find him and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67982829">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A passonate love story during the genocide of Cambodia under vietnamese occupation. It bothered me how the Canadian woman thought she could order the authorities in Cambodia around and have them allow her to be an exception to the rules during a time when the country was ravaged by war and unjustice...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60845050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56101098">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 14 15:08:58 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this book on the recommendation of my daughter. This is both a beautiful love story and a horrific journey into the Cambodian genocide during the reign of the Khymer Rouge. Alexis did a much better review that I could do justice here.]]></body>
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    <review id="64656333">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Not a book to take to the beach for a light summer read&quot;<br/> A passionate love story set in Montreal and Cambodia in the 1970s.<br/>A little too graphic for me when she describes the genocide in Cambodia-<br/>haunting.<br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't read this.  I don't know if it is because I had an ARC, but there is no quotation marks whatsoever and the writing style makes it difficult for me to follow.  Anna is basically talking to or writing a letter you could say to her former lover.  It goes like this the whole time:  Years late...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74789694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't put this novel down.  It's haunting me days later.  I highly recommend it.]]></body>
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