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The ancient and mysterious ruins of Cambodia have long captured the imagination of visitors, more so now than ever before. This is the second instalment in the Destination series from Walter Mason, the openly gay Sydney-based author who fell in love with a Vietnamese-Australian man (now his partner of 20 years), and who shares again his idiosyncratic and often hilarious insights into South-east Asian culture.
Whether he's watching young monks recite the Buddha's life stories, visiting shamans and fortune tellers, or discovering the darker alleys of Phnom Penh with a romantic novelist and a world-weary street hustler, Walter takes the reader straight to the heart of this famously unknowable country. As heat, dust and weariness take their toll, he remains alive to the charms, and even seductions, of a place that was once a byword for misery and human suffering.
In his quirky, affectionate and often homoerotic style, Mason takes us on a joyful and constantly fascinating journey through a vibrant, hopeful and sometimes haunting Cambodia.
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013.
Author: Walter Mason