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Before The Rain
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl ...
Cambodia's Healing Fields
Delicately brushing away the soil with his fingers, Aki Ra uncovers a dark green land mine buried two inches beneath the overgrown dirt road. The size of a large soup can, the mine was planted by the Khmer Rouge about 15 years ago on this ox track in northwestern Cambodia—the most densely mined region of one of the most heavily mined countries in the world.
"This is the type 69 Bouncing Betty made in China," says Aki Ra, his breath fogging the blastproof visor of his helmet. Bouncing Betty is the American nickname for a bounding fragmentation land mine. The pressure of a footstep causes it to leap out of the ground and then explode, spraying shrapnel in every direction. It can shred the legs of an entire squad.
Soft-spoken and cherubic, Aki Ra knows the inner workings of the Bouncing Betty and just about every other variety of mine. In the mid-1970s, when he was five, the Khmer Rouge separated him from his parents and took him into the jungle with other orphans. At that time, Pol Pot, commander of the Khmer Rouge, had plunged the country into chaos, closing schools, hospitals, factories, banks, and monasteries; executing teachers and businessmen; and forcing millions of city dwellers into a gulag of labor camps and farms. The small hands of children like Aki Ra were invaluable tools. He was trained to lay land mines, defuse and deconstruct enemy mines, and reuse the TNT for what are now called improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Before the Rain 1994 reviewed 1995 - Bookshelf
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Alienhood, citizenship, exile, and the logic of difference It won international awards at the 1994 Venice International Film Festival and the ... Andrew Morton, review of Before the Rain, Cineaste 21 (1995): 44. 6. ... |
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Central and Eastern Europe in transition ... Jiri Menzel (THE LIFE AND EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF PRIVATE IVAN CHONKTN, 1994), Milcho Manchevski (BEFORE THE RAIN, 1994) and Goran Paskaljevic ... |
Before the Rain 1994 reviewed 1995 - News
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Book review P200, ISBN 978-0-330-33942-1. Available through Exclusive Books, Riverwalk. The Riders is Tim Winton's sixth published novel in Australia in 1994. It was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1995, as was his Dirt Music in 2002 (Mmegi, 7 March 2003). |
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