Box Of Clouds

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Spinning Yarns
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Publisher Year: 2024
Edition: First Edition

Description: 256 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Facing lifes shortcomings leads to discovery -a sometimes uncertain, often frightening task where the risks are high. How far would you go, what would you give, to save a life Brisbane, 2007. Jeff Lange is a small-time academic at a big-time university. Sixty, alone, in KL Tower 276 metres above ground, the arse drops out of his world. In that instant he made a solemn pledge. How far would he go to discover himself The answer, taking the first, next step in a different direction plunges Jeff into Phnom Penh, Cambodias wild heart. He meets Buhn, a child of Pol Pots Khmer Rouge regime, now 34, a tuk-tuk driver struggling to make a living. A bond is struck between Buhn, and Jeff knows the beneficiary of his pledge. So begins a bitter/sweet 7 years sweep in and out of post genocide Cambodia. Phnom Penh, 2013. Jeff has moved to Cambodia, As elections approach, circumstances change significantly. Paramilitary fill the streets. Police roll out razor wire. Trouble is inevitable.Pushing ideas about living where there are no maps for survival, Box of Clouds explores dislocation, intergenerational and cross-cultural differences, masculinity, identity and self-determination, ghosts, hope and promise. The joy of bucking expectations, changing what is expected by society that wishes people be harmless and benign. Full of heart, challenging, and with a social conscience - Box of Clouds is not a straightforward story.Bold Courageous Heartwarming Uplifting

ISBN: 9780646703114