cover image For the Sake of All Living Things

For the Sake of All Living Things

John M. del Vecchio. Bantam Books, $5.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-553-28842-1

In part two of the trilogy begun in The 13th Valley , events leading to the 1970s Cambodian holocaust are described through the eyes of a tragedy-stricken, revenge-minded family. ``This exhaustive, emotionally powerful novel ends on a note of desperate irony that sums up the Kafkaesque absurdity of Cambodia's torment,'' PW commented. (Jan.)