Date 19 June 2019
Pages 317
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 22.00
EAN 9782849906323
Publisher Website www.editionsdesequateurs.fr

River of Time

Author Jon Swain
A memoir by one of the greatest names in war reporting. A cult book about the wars in Indochina, translated for the first time into French.

Jon Swain was the only reporter present in Phnom Penh when the city fell into Khmers Rouge hands in April 1975. His story is the basis of this cult book, River of Time, and Roland Joffé's famous 1984 film The Killing Fields . More than a nostalgic or romanticized of this bloody period, more than a military war report, Jon Swain tells us, in luxuriant prose, of the beauty of the Mekong River, the hills of the Laotian jungle, and above all, how these countries informed his experience of life and death like no other: how they shaped his imagination, his senses, and his sensibility for rest of his life.