Nach der Party

The cult book from America: New York Times bestseller, celebrated by the press. Only those who radically reinvent themselves, who find new ways to deal with their own bodies and identities, with friendship and family, have a chance to make peace with the past. In Stockton, a city in a California valley far from the sea, Buddhist temples and Cambodian grocery stores thrive since the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge displaced people from their own country here. In this city, which belongs neither entirely to America nor to Asia, we encounter all-powerful monks, annoying aunts, adolescents tortured to death by boredom, and stumble upon a whole continent of silenced, repressed, forbidden stories, secret desires, and sexual fantasies. Unapologetically and boldly, Anthony Veasna So narrates in his posthumously published, acclaimed collection of stories about the liberation struggle of the younger generation against silence and forgetfulness.