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Название книги: Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter
Автор(ы): Geoff Ryman
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Pol-Pot_s-Beautiful-Daughter-149880.html
In Cambodia people are used to ghosts. Ghosts buy newspapers. They own property.A few years ago, spirits owned a house in Phnom Penh, at the Tra Bek end of Monivong Boulevard. Khmer Rouge had murdered the whole family and there was no one left alive to inherit it. People cycled past the building, leaving it boarded up. Sounds of weeping came from inside.Then a professional inheritor arrived from America. She'd done her research and could claim to be the last surviving relative of no fewer than three families. She immediately sold the house to a Chinese businessman, who turned the ground floor into a photocopying shop.The copiers began to print pictures of the original owners.At first, single black and white photos turned up in the copied dossiers of aid workers or government officials. The father of the murdered family had been a lawyer. He stared fiercely out of the photos as if demanding something. In other photocopies, his beautiful daughters forlornly hugged each other. Th
Название книги: Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter
Автор(ы): Geoff Ryman
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Pol-Pot_s-Beautiful-Daughter-149880.html
In Cambodia people are used to ghosts. Ghosts buy newspapers. They own property.A few years ago, spirits owned a house in Phnom Penh, at the Tra Bek end of Monivong Boulevard. Khmer Rouge had murdered the whole family and there was no one left alive to inherit it. People cycled past the building, leaving it boarded up. Sounds of weeping came from inside.Then a professional inheritor arrived from America. She'd done her research and could claim to be the last surviving relative of no fewer than three families. She immediately sold the house to a Chinese businessman, who turned the ground floor into a photocopying shop.The copiers began to print pictures of the original owners.At first, single black and white photos turned up in the copied dossiers of aid workers or government officials. The father of the murdered family had been a lawyer. He stared fiercely out of the photos as if demanding something. In other photocopies, his beautiful daughters forlornly hugged each other. Th
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