River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia - Softcover

Swain, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425168050 ISBN 13: 9780425168059

Publisher: Berkley Trade, 1999

Synopsis

"A splendid memoir...a tale, at once tragic and beautiful, of love and loss, of coming of age and of witnessing the end of Indochina as the West had known it for more than a century."--Los Angleles Times Book Review. From the writer immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields.

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

‘A romantic, evocative and touching book, the story of a young man’s coming-of-age in the shocking but desperately alluring war zones of Cambodia and Vietnam’ Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0425168050
• ISBN 13: 9780425168059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304