The Gods of Angkor Wat

"Tough stories told brilliantly, beautifully." The Gods of Angkor Wat exposes the complexity of human emotions with all their scars and bruises. This collection of short stories takes us on a tour of battlefields, from a schoolyard playground to the family kitchen, from a Mexican bullring to peer pressure in the killing fields of Vietnam. Each tale bears witness to life as it is-and not as we wish it were-revealing compassion, violence, love and betrayal through an unflinching look at the human condition. Hard-bitten yet redemptive, these stories offer tightly woven prose in the literary fiction milieu.