Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life has been dominated by one issue: survival. Concern for himself, politically and physically, has been so overpowering that every decision he makes--from a car journey to the appointment of a general--is a function of "Will this make me safer?" He started with nothing. The villagers in his native Peam Koh Sna, four hours up the Mekong River from Phnom Penh, remember him as a clever, quiet boy. He displayed "a talent to persuade people by speaking," according to Chin Tho, 58, who farms tobacco along the river. But Hun Sen's family was poorer than average...
...separation from his wife and daughter, from what he calls "the best of myself" and "what was intended to be the central experience of my life," is convincing--and strangely affirming of that very experience. "But marriage is beautiful," as one character in Intimacy says. "A terrible journey, a season in hell and a reason for living." It is also something that, in the right hands, can be fodder...
...book is a kind of odyssey, a moving around between five continents. And it's Keelin's journey. Aisling disappears from the family. So at first you think it is about Aisling and about finding Aisling, but in the end the book is about Keelin's journey. Aisling is a figure that really scares people. My editor hated her, really hated her. And I was thinking, "I loved Aisling." I thought she was very strong and wild. And okay, she did disappear and not contact her family, but in a way that was her prerogative. And in a way, Keelin...
...roles they have no control over. Martin's characters are fully and enticingly written, emerging from the text like the heroes of an epic poem. Culminating in Aisling herself, who even in childhood seems to be a giantess, the figures spring hyper-real from this surreal journey narrative...
...descriptions take on a hard, bright, almost neon like quality. As she sweats through sickness in Central America a fuzzy magic-realism pervades. New York and Las Vegas become the barren, American suburban talk-show circuit. Like the text, Keelin is subtly changed by each new location, making a journey that began as a quest for someone else her own. Even as she moves towards real independence, though, Keelin is snared by the complexities and false promises of the family bond. It seems that even a family as symbolically linked as her own, in the end is only a handful...