superb narrative and comment on Cambodia and its recent history

I read a lot on the mainland of Southeast Asia, books, articles, bios and specially on Cambodia I visit very regularly. I have personally been filled by the amount of information and the biographical look at the characters that appear in the narrative of the author, who all had a role in the story that it was agreed to call the Cochin . It s' is not a novel, then, but a trial (managed) from Patrick Deville. M style has seduced, and it's a book that it is necessary warmly recommend to all lovers of this region of the world.

It is of course rather easy and logical to subscribe to the thesis that the arrival of the Khmer Rouge was in power as a result of a hundred years of colonial history and liberating. However, we do not want to systematically think that history can explain or get them all behavior, and that is also blames are distributed to all forces in the presence of a hundred years. Any more than we can say that the philosophy of Rousseau is the basis of so many outbursts of violence and deshumanization.

But all this deserves reflection, and it is perhaps the book that this excellent fishing a little, it forces us to adopt a little ironic gaze of the author. But also where he succeeds: the irony is fly, difficult not to find that it's the best look to adopt.

Fascinated with this abundance of characters from disparate personalites, which are almost a tale of adventure, we follow passionately the tale, the story actually, and in the 2 sense, one is seduced by the style and vivid thought of the author, we see the damage with the risk therefore to accept any such fatality since the fate of each seems to grasp that the most direct (east-er?). As if for praphraser uses the leitmotif in the book by P. Deville, no one chose the assignment of his destiny, and that after all, as Hannah Arendt 's had deducted: for or that evil happens, and or that it prevails, hell on Earth is a matter of banality.