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Reflections on Writing The Disappeared
- University of Toronto Quarterly
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 82, Number 2, Spring 2013
- pp. 127-131
- Article
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Novelist Kim Echlin reflects on the process and conditions that led her to write The Disappeared, a novel as much about the Cambodian genocide as about love. She discusses the role of memory, empathy, and translation as they relate to her understanding of the other and her own otherness as well as the need to access the truth about the violence and loss that accompanies violent regimes.