The Disappeared - Brossura

Electrifying...This is a very sensual book, written in an aroused but taut and plain prose that attaches the intensities of erotic love to the smell, sight, taste and touch of human suffering...Echlin's heroine is a risk-taker; so, on the literary level, is Echlin...The novel contains no quotation marks; the seamless prose represents a mind compulsively remembering. Serey, who is rarely named, becomes all but nameless, the vocative sounding into a void. Through such technical and stylistic virtuosity, allied with elliptical narrative brilliance, Echlin raises Anne's climactic ritual action to a level of tragic sublimity (Stevie Davies, Guardian)

Despite everything written about Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia, it is still possible to be deeply shocked by the stories of two million who died in the killing fields, were tortured or simply disappeared. Canadian writer Kim Echlin has written a love stor (Independent)

Exquisite . . . And like the philosopher's stone, [Echlin] creates alchemy. She permits what has been unsaid to be said, and what has been nameless to be named at last (New York Times)

A daring venture...finely chiselled...genuine tension and power (Telegraph ‘[Echlin] summons the swirling passions of unfettered love, the blank panic of all-consuming grief and the devastating after-effects of holocaust (where people startle at smells – “surrogate odors of torture and dead bodies and bombs”) with unse)

* Literary fiction of the highest order, this is an unforgettable novel set against the backdrop of Cambodia's savage killing fields