Cambodia

Ten Gems on a Thread II

By Catherine Filloux

Originally published by The Drama Review 48, 4 (T184), Winter 2004

http://mitpress.mit.edu/tdr

At home we have different mothers, but in the forest, we all have just one.
—Cambodian Proverb

Chubby

Soon after I arrive in Phnom Penh in November 2003, I visit Sre Ampil, the
farm/orphanage of a French-Khmer art historian, Monsieur Son Soubert.1
Son Soubert is the son of Son Sann, a prime minister from the 1960s, and his

Ten Gems on a Thread


By Catherine Filloux

Originally published in @nd…a New Dramatists Publication, Winter 2001-2002,

and in In The Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing From Cambodia; Manoa, University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

 

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