Zero Hour In Phnom Penh

Author : Christopher G. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781311734037
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zero Hour in Phnom Pehn written by Christopher G. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction andWinner of 2007 Premier Special Director Book Award Semana Negra, SpainIn the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid on the violence. Gunfire can still be heard nightly in Phnom Penh, where Vietnamese prostitutes try to hook UN peacekeepers from the balcony of the Lido Bar.Calvino traces leads on a missing farang from Bangkok to war-torn Cambodia, through the Russian market, hospitals, nightclubs, news briefings, and UNTAC Headquarters. Calvino's buddy, Colonel Pratt, knows something that Calvino does not: the missing man is connected with the jewels stolen from the Saudi royal family. Calvino quickly finds out that he is not the only one looking for the missing farang."The story is fast-paced and entertaining. Even outside of his Bangkok comfort zone, Moore shows he is one of the best chroniclers of the expat diaspora."--The Daily Yomiuri

Author : Christopher G. Moore
Publisher : Heaven Lake Press
ISBN 13 : 9786167503004
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zero Hour in Phnom Penh written by Christopher G. Moore and published by Heaven Lake Press. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction and Winner of 2007 Premier Special Director Book Award Semana Negra, Spain In the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid on the violence. Gunfire can still be heard nightly in Phnom Penh, where Vietnamese prostitutes try to hook UN peacekeepers from the balcony of the Lido Bar. Calvino traces leads on a missing farang from Bangkok to war-torn Cambodia, through the Russian market, hospitals, nightclubs, news briefings, and UNTAC Headquarters. Calvino's buddy, Colonel Pratt, knows something that Calvino does not: the missing man is connected with the jewels stolen from the Saudi royal family. Calvino quickly finds out that he is not the only one looking for the missing farang.

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789749303597
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zero Hour in Phnom Penh written by Christopher Moore and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher G. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789741030460
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zero Hour in Phnom Penn written by Christopher G. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Milton E. Osborne
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781904955405
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phnom Penh written by Milton E. Osborne and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long neglected by Western travellers, Phnom Penh became Cambodias permanent capital in 1866. It has been home to Iberian missionaries and French colonialists, with a stunning mix of traditional palaces, Buddhist temples and transplanted French architecture. In the 1960s Phnom Penh deserved its reputation as the most attractive city in Southeast Asia. But after 1970 all this was to change, and a terrible civil war was followed by the Khmer Rouges capture of the city in 1975. Since the defeat of Pol Pot in 1979, Phnom Penh has slowly recovered, once again attracting perceptive travellers.

Author : Milton Osborne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190451025
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phnom Penh written by Milton Osborne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a one-time resident of Phnom Penh and an authority on Southeast Asia, Milton Osborne provides a colorful account of the troubled history and appealing culture of Cambodia's capital city. Osborne sheds light on Phnom Penh's early history, when first Iberian missionaries and freebooters and then French colonists held Cambodia's fate in their hands. The book examines one of the most intriguing rulers of the twentieth century, King Norodom Sihanouk, who ruled over a city of palaces, Buddhist temples, and transplanted French architecture, an exotic blend that remains to this day. Osborne also describes the terrible civil war, the Khmer Rouge's capture of the city, the defeat of Pol Pot in 1979, and Phnom Penh's slow reemergence as one of the most attractive cities in Southeast Asia.

Author : Meenakshi Bharat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261903
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing the Exotic and the Familiar written by Meenakshi Bharat and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a “fetishizing process”, as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a “first world” from a “third world”, the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency, not least by focusing on the kinds of intellectual tourism and dilettantism to which it has given rise. The wider context of these analyses is a postcolonial scenario where literatures and languages can move from the “exotic” to the comparatively “familiar” space of contemporary writings; where an exotic mythos can live on into the familiar present; and where certain perceptions and representations of peoples, of literatures, and of languages have turned exoticization and familiarization into global modes of mass-cultural consumption. Especially by exploring the liminalities between different cultures, this collection manages to trace both the history and the politics of exoticist representation and, in so doing, to make a significant critical intervention.

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cut Out written by Christopher Moore and published by White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand). This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher G. Moore
Publisher : Asia Document Bureau Limited
ISBN 13 : 9786167503158
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book Phnom Penh Noir written by Christopher G. Moore and published by Asia Document Bureau Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many noir anthologies have inspired writers and publishers around the world to gather novelists to set noir stories in a city. When it comes to noir, not all cities are equal. The history of genocide and dislocation sets Phnom Penh apart from other places. What other city in modern times was emptied of all of his people at gun point, a city abandoned and left as a ghost town? The authors of Phnom Penh Noir take you inside the lives of Cambodians who carry that legacy of that fateful day on 17th April 1975 when the Khmer Rouge arrived and forced the population to evacuate to the countryside. The Khmer Rouge experiment resulted in radical transformation of a society that left a bloody trail, one that left almost no family untouched, and hovers close to the surface in these stories. In Phnom Penh Noir, the stories, lyrics, and cover photograph have joined legendary creative talents like Roland Joffe, James Grady and John Burdett along with a young generation of Cambodians. The noir tales unfold through multiple points of view and enrich the reading experience. Truth, mortality, regret, betrayal, and loss play out in these stories, poetry and lyrics. The authors and publishers will contribute twenty percent of their earnings from this book to selected charity organizations in Cambodia. Official website: www.phnompenhnoir.com

Author : Christopher G. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783293202603
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stunde null in Phnom Penh written by Christopher G. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: