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John Park’s Janus

JANUS by John Park

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BY AE

In a way it’s fitting to review John Park’s Janus in January, a month that often finds us looking both forward and backward like the Roman god after which it was named. That same duality forms the tension at the heart of Park’s novel.

A golden book from the dark age of Cambodia

THE KING’S LAST SONG by Geoff Ryman

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BY J.J.S. Boyce

I’m not quite of the correct age to deeply understand the struggles of modern Cambodia. The violence and anguish are perhaps still of too recent a vintage to be revisited by popular culture. But I also missed it when it was recent news. By the time the war-weary country began to realize something approaching peace, I was on the cusp of young adulthood. I began to attain a nascent awareness of world events only after the Khmer Rouge was a fading nightmare.

With dual narratives set in both contemporary and 12th-century Cambodia, The King’s Last Song allows me the opportunity to fill that gap.

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