Photo of a passage from Bunkong Tuon's novel "Koan Khmer," published by Curbstone Books, Northwestern University Press, 2024. The Khmer book beneath the novel is "Journey to Freedom" by Ranachith Yimsut, published by the Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, 2006.
"It is safer to write out these words than to utter them. That is why I am a writer."
From the novel "Koan Khmer," by @bunkong.bsky.social. Curbstone Books, Northwestern University Press, 2024
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