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River of Time - Couverture rigide

Swain, Jon

 
9780312169893: River of Time
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0312169892 ISBN 13 : 9780312169893
Editeur : St Martins Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Swain Jon

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Revue de presse

"A remarkable heart-breaking book" (Gavin Young)

"Jon Swain's powerful and moving book goes further than anything else I have read towards explaining the appeal of Indo-China and its tragic conflicts... A brilliant and unsettling examination of the age-old bonds between death, beauty, violence and the imagination, which came together in Vietnam and nowhere else" (J. G. Ballard Sunday Times)

"An absolutely riveting book... Haunting, compulsive and beautifully written, River of Time looks set to become a classic" (Alexander Frater Observer)

"His book is a damning indictment and a triumphant witness. Brief, wrenching, it is surely the freshest and most sensitive account of those times" (Michael Binyon The Times)

"A sombre, magnificent book" (Daily Mail)

Présentation de l'éditeur

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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Éditeur
St Martins Pr
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0312169892
ISBN 13 
9780312169893
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
281
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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