In what is a seemingly impossible feat, the form is carved perfectly to the task-the book balances on the beauty.

moments of genuine tension and power.'-Tash Aw,Telegraph(UK) 'A dance of words. Through technical and stylistic virtuosity, allied with elliptical narrative brilliance, Echlin raises Anne's climactic ritual action to a level of tragic sublimity.'-Stevie Davies,The Guardian(UK) 'Finely chiseled prose. in an aroused but taut and plain prose that attaches the intensities of erotic love to the smell, sight, taste and touch of human suffering. is a miracle of economy whose short sentences and ellipses often draw on the powerful brevity of short-story technique. The Disappearedis a passionate and emotionally wrenching novel that forces us to remember and provides witness to what was lost.'-Lauren Bufferd, 'Sensual. powerful, transcendent love story.'-Publishers Weekly ' poignant love story.

Echlin creates a sorrowfully compelling world. 'The beautifully spare narrative is daringly imaginative in the details. Part elegy, part love letter, part call to arms, The Disappeared is a soaring tribute to those who have disappeared in the violent conflicts throughout history. In aching, tender prose, Kim Echlin challenges our notions of how to both claim the past of move on after insufferable loss. A decade later, Anne will travel halfway around the world to find him, and to save their love from the same tragic forces that first brought them together. But when the borders of Cambodia are reopened, Serey must risk his life to return home in search of his family. Swept up in the infatuation of young love, Anne ignores her father's wishes and embraces her relationship with Serey in Montreal's smoky jazz clubs and in his cramped yellow bedroom.

When sixteen-year-old Anne Greves first meets Serey, a Cambodian student forced to leave his country during the rise of the Khmer Rouge, she never considers the consequences of their complicated romance. A fiercely beautiful love story for the ages, The Disappeared traces one woman's three-decades-long journey from the peaceful streets of Montreal to the war-torn villages of Cambodia, as a brief affair turns into a grand passion of loss and remembrance, set against one of the most brutal genocides of our time.

The disappeared by kim echlin