"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter" by Geoff Ryman
First read: 11.10.10
I couldn't tell you exactly why, because neither the topic nor the character were particularly my thing but I ran across a book with this story in Oxfam and I sat down and I read its 12.500 words (40 pages) in one go. The author's voice is just so detached that it makes you want to find something to feel about. I'm just going to read more by him, maybe "The Child Garden", because that is what i want more of. In this one the daughter of Camboia's genocidal dictator has to live with her father's mistakes, since living people don't hold her accountable or mention it to her (although she is almost completely isolated) it's the death that come back to haunt her (very literally since the ghosts in this story do more than the living). Anyway, fantastic world-building.
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