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(Un)familiar : Phnom Penh, Cambodia single work   short story   travel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 (Un)familiar : Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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The story presents an example of 'dark tourism': an attraction or fascination with seeking out sites of atrocities.

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    y separately published work icon Small Indiscretions : Stories of Travel in Asia Stories of Travel in Asia Felicity Castagna , Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2011 Z1795392 2011 selected work short story travel 'A traveller becomes a Monroe impersonator in the casinos of Macau. An obsessive son of Australians living in Jakarta confronts his strange rituals. A young woman is trapped in the boredom of her father's ministry in exotic Borneo. A daughter defies her mother and travels to Bali.

    'Castagna's twenty stories range across countries: including Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and China, deftly exploring the relationships of parents and children, lovers and enemies, the transient and the resident. In the spirit of Rattawatt Lapacharoensap's Sightseeing, Castagna's fiction powerfully captures the landscapes and cultures of Asia and the intriguing interactions of Westerners with it.' (From the publisher's website.)         Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2011     pg. 82-93
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    Cambodia,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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