Lya Badgley

The Foreigner's Confession (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An unexpected, mysterious discovery in Cambodia leads Emily Mclean on a journey through the country's painful history and toward personal redemption.
After a horrific accident shatters her world and leaves her an amputee, American attorney Emily Mclean moves to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to work with landmine survivors. She hopes to reinvent herself in this new land, leaving behind her sense of culpability in the death of her husband and the loss of her unborn child.
While visiting the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide, Emily discovers that she bears an eerie resemblance to a portrait of a former prison inmate, Milijana Petrova, a Yugoslavian communist revolutionary who, in the 1970s, became fatally enmeshed with the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Emily is not the only one who notices the astonishing similarityher Cambodian driver insists she is the ghost of Milijana, come back to complete a mysterious task.
This unexpected discovery consumes Emily, who starts desperately searching for answers about Milijana in historical documents from Cambodia's devastating civil war. As she begins to uncover more clues about Milijana's lifefrom the horrible mistakes she made to the terrible price she paidfurther similarities between the two women start to emerge, and their stories become intertwined. What happens when life is turned upside down and the boundaries between past and present, life and death, are blurred? Can Emily's discoveries help her to finally emerge from the pain of her own past, or will Milijana's tragic end foretell her own?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lya Badgley
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781737826514
• Artikelnr.: 70232879

Autorenporträt

Lya Badgley writes suspenseful international fiction featuring characters overcoming life-changing odds. She draws deeply from personal experience living in Europe and Southeast Asia. Her life is worthy of a movie dabbling in the music industry, opening a restaurant in Myanmar, interviewing insurgents for Human Rights Watch, and microfilming documents for the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide in Cambodia. Her first novel, The Foreigner's Confession, set in Cambodia, was released in February of 2022. Her second novel, The Worth of a Ruby, is set in Myanmar and will be released in the fall of 2023. She currently lives in Snohomish Washington and is busy writing her third novel.