A French delegation visits Angkor Wat in the 1930s. New novel The Zero Season is set in 1949, split between a soon-to-be independent Cambodia and a Paris still recovering from occupation. Photo: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
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Echoes of Graham Greene, Andre Malraux in debut novels set in French Indochina, published by Penguin Random House SEA
- In Zero Season by Justin Clark, a French farm boy and a Cambodian student begin a gay affair in Paris, the latter drawn to his nation’s independence struggle
- In Too Far From Antibes, a naive French journalist in Saigon investigates his brother’s murder. Graham Greene’s The Quiet American resonates in the background
A French delegation visits Angkor Wat in the 1930s. New novel The Zero Season is set in 1949, split between a soon-to-be independent Cambodia and a Paris still recovering from occupation. Photo: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
