Under the Sun

Justin Kerr-Smiley

Reportage Press

To be permanently hungry and to watch your little eight-year-old girl slowly dying . . . is an unbearable torment. A French citizen, Denise Affonço, was brought up in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, she was deported with her family to the countryside, where they endured four years of hard labor, famine, sickness, and death. Affonço’s account of these years is remarkably fresh, having been written immediately after her liberation in 1979. Denise Affonço was a witness at the trial in absentia of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary held in 1979. Ieng Sary is due to be tried by the UN backed tribunal in Cambodia which makes this book especially topical. Denise Affonço lives in Paris but will be touring the USA and Canada to promote her book in March/April 2009.

To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge by Denise Affonco (2007-10-30)

History

Denise Affonço

Asia

Bikila: Ethiopia's Barefoot Olympian

Tim Judah

Renaud Girard

Biographies & Memoirs

Something is Going to Fall Like Rain

Wynne-Jones, Ros

Behind the Spanish Barricades: Reports from the Spanish Civil War

John Langdon-Davies

Europe

<p><div> <div> <p>Africa is a continent riddled with conflict. Most are forgotten wars that rumble away unnoticed for years. Darfur is different. For five years, an unlikely coalition of the religious Rght, the liberal Left, and a smattering of celebrities have kept Darfur's bloody conflict in the headlines. Rob Crilly, East Africa correspondent of <i>The Times</i> , arrived in Sudan in 2005 to find out what made Darfur special.</p> <p>He found a conflict very different to the one popularized by the Save Darfur movement. This was no simple genocide being carried out by Arabs on black, African tribes. Along the way he rides with rebels on donkeys, gets caught in a Janjaweed attack, and learns lessons from Osama bin Laden's horse.</p> <p><b>Rob Crilly</b> has lived and worked in East Africa since 2004, writing for <i>The Times</i> and <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i> , among others. He has traveled extensively through Sudan and reported from war zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, and northern Uganda.</p> </div> </div></p>

Saving Darfur: Everyone's Favourite African War

Rob Crilly

Africa

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Reportage Press publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Reportage Press