Editor's note: In the coming weeks, Coast Reporter, in conjunction with the Festival of the Written Arts (FOWA), will present brief previews of some of the authors appearing at this year's festival.
They only held power in Cambodia for four years in the late '70s, but the Khmer Rouge, led by the misguided Marxist agrarian reformist Pol Pot, managed to exterminate between one and three million of the country's eight million citizens.
It seems an unlikely backdrop for a love story, but Pol Pot's infamous "killing fields," one of history's most horrific genocidal massacres, is exactly the context for The Disappeared, Kim Echlin's widely acclaimed novel about a passionate affair between a Canadian and her Cambodian lover. Echlin will read from and discuss her work at the 27th annual Sunshine Coast Festival on Sunday, Aug. 16, at 9 a.m. Tickets to this and many other festival events are available by calling 604-885-9631. See www.writersfestival.ca for all the details.
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