Three Flames: A Novel

A “piercing . . . important story of global women’s rights,” family ties, and the resiliency of the human spirit—from the author of the international bestseller Einstein’s Dreams (Annie Proulx).

In Cambodia, three generations of a rural farming family grapple with the encroachment of the modern world.

Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and a cruel and dictatorial father, set in a rural community that is ...