The King’s Last Song

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Geoff Ryman. The King’s Last Song

GEOFF RYMAN. The King’s Last Song

Kraing Meas

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Awakening

Leaf 1

Leaf 2

April 1136

April 11, 2004

April 1967, April 2004

Leaf 35

April 13, 2004

April 1142

April 13, April 14, 2004

April 1147

April 14, 2004

April 1988, April 1989, April 1990

April 1151

April 15, 2004, part one

September 1960

April 1152

April 15, 2004, part two

April 1160

Leaf 60

Leaf 61

Leaf 62

Leaf 63

Leaf 64

Leaf 65

Leaf 66

Leaf 67

Leaf 68

Leaf 69

April 16, 2004

April 1165

April 16, 2004, night

April 1177

Leaf 59

The Season of Rain and Flooding

April 1181

Leaf 85

Leaf 86

Leaf 87

Leaf 88

Leaf 89

Season of Drought and Sweating

April 1191

Leaf 151

Leaf 152

Leaf 153

Leaf 154

Leaf 155

Acknowledgements

About the Author. THE KING’S LAST SONG

Also by the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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dedicated toTamara and da boize

Sanskrit inscription on the temple of Pre Rup, translated by Kamaleswar Bhattacharya

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This seemed to cause her distress. She moved from side to side as if caught between two things. ‘I don’t know, Sir.’

‘You’re scared!’ he said, which was such an absurd thing to be that it amused him. He suddenly thought of a fishing cat on a dock taking off in fear when people approached. ‘Fishing cats are scared and they run away!’

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