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12 Mar 2010 | |
| Milton Osborne on Phnom Penh | |
| Wed 30 Jul 2008 | |
| Milton Osborne will be talking about his latest book, 'Phnom Penh: A Cultural and a Literary History', which is both a memoir of his long association with the Cambodia capital, which began in 1959, and a wide ranging survey of the city's history, its urban planning and architecture and the diverse literary figures, including Somerset Maugham and Andre Malraux, who wrote about it. Too often thought of in terms either as a city of pagodas, princes and royal elephants or as the grim centre of Pol Pot's tyranny, Phnom Penh is revealed in Osborne's book as the setting for a series of absorbing human dramas. In the 16th century these involved Iberian freebooters; in the 19th the doomed struggle between King Norodom I and the French colonial power; and in the 20th the remarkable career of Norodom Sihanouk and the years of brutal rule by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. Only now is Phnom Penh a city that has attained something like normality.
When: 6 - 8pm Wednesday July 30 Where: Asia Bookroom, Lawry Place, Macquarie (adjacent to the Jamison Centre) RSVP: Tuesday July 29 to 6251 5191 or books@AsiaBookroom.com |
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