The Lands of Charm and Cruelty: Travels in Southeast Asia
By Stan Sesser.
Description
'With detail, expertise and a moral voice, freelance writer Sesser portrays five repressed lands. His narratives -- reprinted from the New Yorker -- begin with the contradictions of Singapore, prosperous and tidy, whose competent, incorruptible leaders rule by fear. In desperately poor Laos, where the United States dropped more bombs than on Nazi Germany, villagers fashion daily essentials from remnant munitions and the wreckage of drowned planes. A chilling report on Cambodia warns of the political re-emergence of the murderous Khmer Rouge. A portrait of Burma limns how that republic&...
ISBN(s)
0330333879, 9780330333870
