ZERO HOUR IN PHNOM PENH: A VINCENT CALVINO P.I. NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 05500007B15654

English Summary/英文概要： In the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid on the violence. Gunfire can still be heard nightly in Phnom Penh, where Vietnamese prostitutes try to hook UN peacekeepers from the balcony of the Lido Bar.

Calvino traces leads on a missing farang from Bangkok to war-torn Cambodia, through the Russian market, hospitals, nightclubs, news briefings, and UNTAC Headquarters. Calvino’s buddy, Colonel Pratt, knows something that Calvino does not: the missing man is connected with the jewels stolen from the Saudi royal family. Calvino quickly finds out that he is not the only one looking for the missing farang.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2004年德國犯罪小說評論獎（2004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction）

2007年西班牙總理特別圖書獎（2007 Premier Special Director Book Award Semana Negra, Spain ）

20世紀90年代初，內戰即將結束，聯合國維和部隊希望儘早能將這次充滿暴力的戰爭儘快劃上句號。金邊的夜裡，此起彼伏的槍聲仍然清晰響徹耳畔。利多酒吧的陽臺上，滿是塗脂抹粉、搔首弄姿的越南妓女，試圖勾引維和部隊的士兵。

卡爾維諾在尋找始終的佛菻，從曼谷一直到備受戰爭蹂躪的柬埔寨，通過俄羅斯的市集、醫院、夜總會、新聞簡報甚至是聯合國駐柬埔寨機構總部，仍然沒能獲得關於佛菻的蛛絲馬跡。他的同伴，普拉特上校，知道卡爾維諾不曾知曉的天大秘密：他要追尋的人與偷盜皇室珠寶的人有著密切的聯繫。卡爾維諾突然明白：原來尋找佛菻的並非他一人…(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：2004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction and Winner of 2007 Premier Special Director Book Award Semana Negra, Spain

“The story is fast-paced and entertaining. Even outside of his Bangkok comfort zone, Moore shows he is one of the best chroniclers of the expat diaspora.”---The Daily Yomiuri

“Zero Hour in Phnom Penh is political, courageous and perhaps [Moore’s] most important work. Moore is a brilliant storyteller and a masterful character inventor.”---CrimiCouch.de

“Zero Hour in Phnom Penh is a brilliant detective story that portrays—with no illusion—Cambodia’s adventurous transition from genocide and civil war to a free-market economy and democratic normality. Zero Hour in Phnom Penh is a rare stroke of luck and a work of art, from which one can always draw more stories and levels of meaning. . . . an all too human, timeless, historical and philosophical novel.”---Deutsche Well Buchtipp, Bonn

“A thriller in which the importance of the single crime shrinks visibly at the sight of mass murder and grand corruption.”---Thomas Klingenmaier, Stuttgarter Zeitung

“It was ten years ago in Cambodia, but this great novel sits well after Kandahar, Luanda, Kabul, Baghdad and other places where the brutality of war destroys the souls of humanity.”---KulturNews, Hamburg

“[In Zero Hour in Phnom Penh] one experiences an impressive novel and discovers lives in a country—keyword ‘Pol Pot—that has a long history of genocide behind it. A novel of sad intelligence and intelligent sadness”---Thomas Widmer, Facts Zürich

About the Author/作者介绍： 克里斯多夫.摩爾（CHRISTOPHER G. MOORE）(出生於1952年7月8日)，是一位加拿大作家，著有20部小說和1部短篇故事集
最為周知的作品是他的三部曲，A Killing Smile (1991), A Bewitching Smile (1992) and A Haunting Smile
小說被翻譯成德語、法語、義大利語、葡萄牙語、希伯來語、日語、漢語、西班牙語、土耳其語、挪威語還有泰語

Christopher G. Moore (born 8 July 1952) is a Canadian writer of twenty novels and one collection of short stories. He is best known for his trilogy A Killing Smile (1991), A Bewitching Smile (1992) and A Haunting Smile (1993), a behind-the-smiles study of his adopted country, Thailand, and for his Vincent Calvino Private Eye series set in Bangkok. His novels have been translated into German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Norwegian and Thai.

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