Hell on Earth
Stephen Haggard, 8 January 1987
Cambodian Witness: The Autobiography of Someth May
edited by James Fenton.
Faber, 287 pp., £9.95, November 1986,0 571 14609 0 Show More
edited by James Fenton.
Faber, 287 pp., £9.95, November 1986,
The stones cry out: A Cambodian Childhood
by Molyda Szymusiak, translated by Linda Coverdale.
Cape, 245 pp., £11.95, January 1987,0 224 02410 8 Show More
by Molyda Szymusiak, translated by Linda Coverdale.
Cape, 245 pp., £11.95, January 1987,
“... as to hinder the emergence of detailed accounts about what really happened. Someth May and Molyda Szymusiak (this is her adopted name) are two Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge years and eventually gained refuge in the West. Someth May’s close collaboration with James Fenton on his book was the subject of a recent BBC ... ”