Cambodia

Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television Too Slow is a ferociously brilliant book that challenges its readers to see the world with new eyes in a new light. Through an arresting division of its pages-- thriteen wildly imaginative short stories at the top and a passionate essay on colonialism and Southeast Asia at the bottom running like a Mekong River footnote throughout the book-- Brian Fawcett startles amuses and infuriates his hooked readers with juxtaposed images and penetrating insights into the media jungle that defines our age. <P>Like subtitles read in a foreign film the pace of Cambodia accelerates and the reader's eye quickens as the work unfolds. Soon Cambodia is moving more swiftly than the images on the evening news showing us that the book's title is not an enigma but a realistic description of its remarkably interactive contents. <P>Brian Fawcett's passion stirs us to resist the annihilation of memory and imagination in our society lest we lose our right to remember our pasts and envision new futures in a violent world where Cambodia is as near as your television set.