THE DISAPPEARED

Toronto: Hamish Hamilton, 2009. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. 235 pp. Signed on the title page by Kim Echlin. Blue boards decorated in yellow on the front panel and spine; headband; orange endpapers. Light rubbing on the corners; price intact; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields. Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she falls in love with Serey, a gentle rebel and exiled musician. She's still only 16 when he leaves her in their Montreal flat to return to Cambodia And, after a decade without word, she abandons everything to search for him in the bars of Phnom Penh, a city traumatized by the Khmer Rouge slaughter. Against all odds the lovers are reunited, and in a political country where tranquil rice paddies harbour the bones of the massacred, Anne pieces together a new life with Serey. But there are wounds that love cannot heal, and some mysteries too dangerous to know. And when Serey disappears again, Anne discovers a story she cannot bear..