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Title: The Disappeared

Author: Kim Echlin

Narrator: Tandy Cronyn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Acclaimed novelist Kim Echlin pens this Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist that Publishers Weekly calls a powerful, transcendent love story. The Disappeared follows two young lovers torn apart by political turmoil. At 16, Anne meets Sereya Cambodian refugeein Montréal and falls passionately in love. But Annes father does not approve of her new boyfriend. Then Serey leaves Anne for Cambodia to find his family, and Anne hears no news of him for years. Could her father be censoring her letters, or is Serey not receiving them? In search of answers, Anne travels to Cambodia herselfand witnesses the devastating fallout of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Echlin has crafted a stunning portrait of love and courage played out against the horrors of genocide. A moving performance by narrator Tandy Cronyn elegantly captures the lyrical tone of Echlins story.

Critic Reviews:

The beautifully spare narrative is daringly imaginative (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Love and Loss

Kim Echlin's third novel is a powerful story of passion, longing and unresolved grief. Echlin has evolved a distinctive writing style, elegant, lyrical and highly evocative, but the story suffers from structural flaws that made it ultimately unsatisfying for me. The author researched Cambodian history thoroughly and the book derives much strength from details and anecdotes drawn from her readings. Her descriptions of Cambodia and the Khmer people are vivid and faithful, as is her portrayal of the brutality and ruthlessness of the post-Pol Pot era.

But the story really focuses on the narrator's obsessive love for her Cambodian boyfriend Serey and her ceaseless efforts to find him when he vanishes, not once but twice. And although Echlin's contemplation of her anguish is explicit and beautifully drawn, it becomes excessive towards the end and the reader's sympathy starts to wane.

The book is perhaps more interesting as an exploration of the psychology of grief than as a novel, but I do think that Echlin is on the verge of writing truly great fiction. I will look for her work in the future.

Bookclub Pick

Interesting read for my bookclub this summer.

This is my all time favorite book. I have read it multiple times and ...

This is my all time favorite book. I have read it multiple times and each time I am taken on a journey through an array of human emotions - all consuming love, heartbreak, grief, joy, confusion, clarity and so on.

Poignant love story

This is a beautiful love story with magical moments that is also an insight into the horror of the Kampuchea purge. it is very lyrical and soulful and the understated prose makes it all the more heart wrenching.

A joy to savor

Elegant language, each sentence a treat! This is what reading is about--a tour of others' journeys in time and space.