Year published: 1996 Genre: Travelogue, journalism, non-fiction Setting & time: Cambodia, ca. 1992-1994. Carol Livingston arrived in Cambodia in the early 1990s, along with friend who was hoping to find work for one of the many international aid and development organisations that were working towards stabilising the political situation in the country and redressing some of the many problems caused by the Khmer Rouge regime. Livingston herself was hoping to earn a living as a freelance journalist and quickly got the idea of writing a book. Supporting herself with her advance payment for the book and by writing stories for various publications, she travelled around the country in search of material for the book and stories to feed to the press. I don’t understand the reviewers who have called this book funny. Sure, there are the occasional wry observations about the smoking of marijuana (and its use in cooking), cultural misunderstandings and expatriate misbehaviour, but for...
Bookish expressions of a Bibliophile living in Reykjavík