![]() ![]() In Phnom Penh, Anne Greaves does finally locate her own "disappeared." The reunion of lovers is human and sad, a meeting of adults now separated by experiences and fates more than cultures or proprieties. "I like the intuition it takes to get bones together," he explains, "to make sense of the scene." Forensic worker Will Maracle is actually from Kahnawake, the Mohawk reserve south of the city. ![]() In the city, she meets first a driver named Mau, with "a scar across his left cheek," and then a fellow Montrealer who is in Cambodia helping chronicle the genocide. The leisurely put-put sway to the traffic, rickshaws drawn by skinny barefoot men who run or pedal bicycles, four-wheeled remorques drawn by motorcycles, white UN vans, Red Cross trucks, military jeeps and buses, an elephant carrying lumber, the streets wrinkling up from the waterfront. ![]() The ragged city, still in shock - like the entire nation - from its recent waking nightmare, is finely rendered: "Phnom Penh. She appears in the Cambodian capital on the eve of contentious elections, with the government brutalizing the opposition. Anne, who has not heard from her lover in all that time, has likewise never ceased being in love. ![]()
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