A generation after the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia shows every sign of having overcome its historythe streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But under this faade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. Joel Brinkley won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Cambodia on the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime that killed one quarter of the nations population during its years in power. In 1992, the world came together to help pull the small nation out of the mire. Cambodia became a United Nations protectoratethe first and only time the UN tried something so ambitious. What did the new, democratically-elected government do with this unprecedented gift? In 2008 and 2009, Brinkley returned to Cambodia to find out. He discovered a population in the grip of a venal government. He learned that one-third to one-half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era have P. T. S. D. and its afflictions are being passed to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodias Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modernday behavior.

喬‧布林克里（Joel Brinkley）

生於華盛頓哥倫比亞特區,畢業於北卡羅萊納大學教堂山分校（University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill）。現任美國史丹佛大學新聞學教授,2006年轉為教職前,在《紐約時報》工作23年,曾任記者、主編與駐外特派。1979年撰寫柬埔寨赤柬政權隕落的報導,曾贏得美國普立茲新聞獎。

位居編輯職位超過十年,包括《紐約時報》政治版主編,華府分部外交新聞主編、專案主編,2001年911事件後則擔任調查報導主編。2003年秋,派駐伊拉克首府巴格達報導政治新聞,並負責撰寫華府外交政策。

過去30年間,布林克里採訪報導美國46個州與超過50個國家的新聞,贏得12座以上的全國報導寫作獎項,2001至2006年擔任調查報導基金會（Fund for Investigative Journalism）總監。有五本著作。現與妻女住在加州帕羅奧圖（Palo Alto）。

譯者簡介

楊芩雯

政治大學新聞學系畢業,在美國紐約大學修過幾堂出版課。一直是書和雜誌的文字工,做採訪寫作、編輯和翻譯。