The King's Last Song, (Paperback)

from BethanyG

An interesting book mixing history and current day Cambodia. The different warring fractions in the 1100's and current times took some getting used to. The story alternated between the different time frames, with interesting stories and descriptions. The second half of the book was definitely bet...

from JenneB

This was pretty amazing. Not at all the kind of thing I usually read but I loved his other books so I picked this one up despite the lack of sciencefictional elements.Half of it takes place in modern-day Cambodia, and half is about 800 years ago. I really didn't know much about Cambodia before, s...

from DeltaQueen50

The King's Last Song by Canadian author Geoff Ryman is his exploration of Cambodian history. The book interweaves two stories about Cambodia but each is set in a very different time period. The first story is about the 12th century ruler Jayavarman VII and how he united the country and founded th...

from alexdallymacfarlane

This is a very interesting book: a look at Cambodia past and present, and the repetitive, recurring nature of its troubles. The discovery of King Jayavarman's gold leaf memoirs should be a great thing for Cambodia, but it is stolen and some of the recent conflicts come back to the surface. I espe...

from fiverivers

Ryman's novel, The King's Last Song has to be one of the best novels I've read in some time. Beautiful, spare language married to skilled character development and impeccable historical research all converge in a tragic, desperate telling of Cambodia's ancient and modern history. Here is an autho...