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Khmer Literature Festival @BattamBang

Have you been to an event where you feel that your time there were quickly carried away as the proceeding of the event progress? Well this was the experience I had recently at the 2Nd Khmer Literature Festival at Battambang provincial town. The venue itself brought me back to some 15 years ago a when I sat foot in this province. I have heard so much about it but have not been to then. Through the reading of the famous novel Kolab Pauline, Pkar Sroporn, and so many uncountable number of songs about its various places the stream the town the coconut the rendez vous of couples and love ones... the list could go on. But what I haven’t been through in my reading list is the novel Kolab Net Yang, Kanlang Abb Khut which was recited at the Site Specific Reading I joined on the morning of 22nd Sept at the Lion status near the concrete bridge តោថ្មនៅក្បាលស្ពានថ្ម មុខសាលាខេត្ត។  The extract for the reading and the gentle voice of the reader sent such an eloquent description of the love o...