![]() ![]() Holiday in Cambodia shows the ugly side of post-colonial tourism, as well as moments of great pathos and dignity, In a compelling and empathetic voice.' Alice Pung 'Each of these stories is like catching a snippet of a conversation or looking into a lit window in a dark night, and loitering longer than you should to hear and see what characters inadvertently reveal about themselves. These are bold and haunting stories by a remarkable new talent. A singer creates a sensation in swinging 1969, on the eve of an American bombing campaign. Elderly sisters are visited by their vampire niece from Australia and set out to cure her. Three backpackers board a train, ignoring the danger signs - and find themselves in the hands of the Khmer Rouge. ![]() ![]() In Holiday in Cambodia Laura Jean McKay explores the electric zone where local and foreign lives meet. A frontier land where anything is possible - at least for the tourists. Beyond the killing fields and the temples of Angkor is Cambodia- a country with a genocidal past and a wide, open smile. ![]()
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