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Robert Carmichael
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in Cape Town, South Africa
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Gitta Sereny; George Orwell; J.M. Coetzee; Rian Malan
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When Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Disappearance, A Daughter's Search and Cambodia's First War Criminal
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Kampot Literary Festival
Should you find yourself in or near Cambodia in early November, check out the first Kampot Writers' and Readers' Festival to be held from November 5-8 in Kampot Town, southern Cambodia (about 240 km south of Phnom Penh).
It's modelled on the well-loved Ubud festival in Bali, Indonesia and, should it pique your interest, you can read more about it here:
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It's modelled on the well-loved Ubud festival in Bali, Indonesia and, should it pique your interest, you can read more about it here:
http://www.kampotwritersfestival.com/... Read more of this blog post »
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When Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Disappearance, A Daughter's Search and Cambodia's First War Criminal:
""Crisply written, elegantly constructed and thoroughly researched, 'when clouds fell from the sky' is a perceptive, often heart - breaking book." David Chandler."
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"This represents a good journalistic account of the time the Khmer Rouge was in power in Cambodia all the way through to the recent war crimes trials in Phnom Penh by a westerner who lived in Cambodia for the past 9 years, Robert Carmichael. It is wel"
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“And everyone wants to know: Who? Why? The victims ask the hardest of all the questions: How is it possible that the person I loved so much lit no spark of humanity in you?”
― Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
― Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
