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IN SECLUSION IDemocratic Kampuchea, as people say it was then called, was cut n Reading Sveva (Talonbooks off from the world as Pol Pot, SOK SABAY $17.95), Daphne Marlatt re- the revolutionary leader of the Isponds to the life and paintings Khmer Rouge, imposed his of Sveva Caetani, born in Rome in four-year reign of terror. 1917. When Mussolini’s fascism The death toll reached close to two was on the rise in 1921, her parents million people, one quarter of the coun- were opposed, choosing to take ref- try’s population. By 1979, thousands of uge in Canada, settling in the Okan- Cambodians were fleeing to the border agan where she was raised as an of Thailand, escaping famine and the only child in a conflict between the Khmer Rouge sophisticated, and Vietnamese forces occupying the multilingual country. Humanitarian organizations household. poured in to the border areas, mount- Her father Le- ing one of the largest international relief one Caetani, operations of the twentieth century. an Islamic Without hesitation, B.C. nurse scholar, spoke Elaine Harvey signed up with the twelve lan- Canadian Red Cross for service on the guages. When war-torn Cambodian border, arriving he died in Sveva Caetani for a six-month tour of nursing duty 1935, seven- in 1980. And that’s how she came to teen-year-old Sveva and her invalid write her memoir, Encounters on the mother Ophelia entered a 25-year Front Line, Cambodia: A Memoir home-seclusion out of grief. It (Promontory $19.99). wasn’t until her mother died that “Face to face with the aftermath of Sveva re-entered the community genocide, famine, torture and terror, I Elaine Harvey tends to of Vernon and flourished with her met a people as gracious as the lotus a boy named Lirat at a artistic skill as a painter and a high refugee camp called Nong blooming in muddy waters,” she writes. school teacher. “…Cambodia was my teacher; my Samet on the Thai-Cam- bodian border in 1980. Caetani began her best-known encounter as hard as shrapnel embed- series of paintings, The Recapitula- ded in flesh, as soft as the fragrance of tion, in 1978, mainly as a tribute jasmine, and as perplexing as the be- to her idealized father. This led to guiling smile of its people, the Khmer, a coffeetable book, Recapitulaton: A offered so freely to foreigners, that Journey, in 1995, made possible by seemed to say ‘I am fine, sok sabay, de- editor Heidi Thompson, as well as spite all that befell our cherished land.” a book/exhibit for the Greater Ver- 978-1-927559-66-6 non Museum and Archives, Caetani di Sermoneta: An Italian family in A different kind of Vernon, 1921-1994, in 2003. Sveva Caetani died in 1994.