Further tests showed that their brains were normal as well. The doctors who examined the women-about a hundred and fifty in all-found that their eyes were normal. Others suffered from blurred or partial vision, their eyes troubled by shadows and pains. She was not the only one who appeared to have cried herself blind.
One woman, who never again saw her husband and three children after soldiers came and took them away, said that she had lost her sight after having cried every day for four years. Most had seen family members murdered in front of them. Many of the women had been raped or tortured or otherwise brutalized. Before fleeing their homeland, they had witnessed the atrocities for which the Khmer Rouge, which had been in power from 1975 to 1979, was well known. Sigrid Nunez, author of "The Friend." Book Excerpt: "The Friend"ĭuring the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see. Her novel follows the story of a writer living in Manhattan, who's come into the care of a massive Great Dane named Apollo after her former professor, mentor, and one-time lover commits suicide.
The 2018 National Book Award winner for fiction is "The Friend," by Sigrid Nunez. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 4 years old.
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