Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist "cuts a clear narrative path through the bewildering, cynical politics and violent social life of one of the world's most brutalized and hard-up countries." (Foreign Affairs) A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.

A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.

Although the international community tried to rebuild Cambodia and introduce democracy in the 1990s, in the country remained in the grip of a venal government. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley learned that almost a half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffered from P.T.S.D. -- and had passed their trauma to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia''s Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.

• | Author: Joel Brinkley
• | Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
• | Publication Date: Sep 04, 2012
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781610391832
• | ISBN-10: 1610391837