James Daschuk, 2013 A couple of years ago I was led to this book through Candace Savage’s A Geography of Blood. After the emotionally draining experience of reading these two takes on the same tragedy, I had to turn away for a while to more cheerful reading or at least to horrors that happened farther […]
The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields
By Rithy Panh with Christophe Bataille, 2013 The Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh lived through the Khmer Rouge nightmare as a boy between the ages of 13 and 17. In this book scenes of his boyhood are interspersed with adult commentary about and interviews with Comrade Duch as a prisoner on trial. Duch was the commander […]