Cambodia's Curse - by Joel Brinkley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Nobel Prize winning reporter Joel Brinkley illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.</b></br></br> 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. </br></br> 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 <i>Cambodia's Curse</i> illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A heartbreaking but vital status report on a people who deserve far better.--<i><b>Booklist</b></i><br><br>A riveting piece of literary reportage.--<i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br><br>An excellent...account of a country whose historic poverty, exacerbated by the Vietnam War, remains remarkably unchanged.--<i><b>Kirkus, February 15, 2011</b></i><br><br>Brinkley cuts a clear narrative path through the bewildering, cynical politics and violent social life of one of the worlds most brutalized and hard-up countries.--<i><b>Foreign Affairs, May/June 2011</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Joel Brinkley</b>, a professor of journalism at Stanford University, is a twenty-three-year veteran of the <i>New York Times</i>. He has worked in more than fifty nations and writes a nationally syndicated op-ed column on foreign policy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980 and was twice a finalist for an investigative reporting Pulitzer in the following years. <i>Cambodia's Curse</i> is his fifth book.
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