The Scent of Rumduol: A Cambodian Novel [Kindle Edition]

The Scent of Rumduol: A Cambodian Novel [Kindle Edition]

The Scent of Rumduol: A Cambodian Novel [Kindle Edition]

Author: Andy J. Hill Publisher: Andy J. Hill Publishing Date: 2013 File Size: 444 KB Print Length: 228 pages Language: English ASIN: B00DYFOFTK Format: Kindle Edition Text-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Lending: Not Enabled Buy at Amazon

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Sothea wants to be a famous writer, the most famous in all of Cambodia, to write about her life, and all the bad things that happen to children in her country. And the good things, as well. Her best friend suggests that there needs to be romance too, as all the best stories have a romance.

Sokhem wants to be a web designer, and to create his own site, uncovering the things that nobody likes to talk about in Cambodia; the stuff that gets swept under the rug. His little brother, Vithu, wants to change the world, after he has finished school, gone to university, traveled, and read everything there is to read and learned everything that can be learned.

Kosal worries for his country, and feels that the Cambodian people are lost. His master has sent him from the pagoda on a seven year pilgrimage to find understanding, and perhaps even enlightenment.

The Scent of Rumduol is a modern day tale of stolen childhoods; of children forced to survive the exigencies of a world epitomized by poverty, violence, drugs, child exploitation, and sexual abuse. It is the story of four orphans whose lives touch, and are touched, by others - including a teenage prostitute, a former Khmer Rouge guard, and a disillusioned aid worker - in ways nobody could ever have imagined.

It is a story of hope, resolve, love, karma, and, ultimately, of triumph over adversity.

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Author: Andy J. Hill Publisher: Andy J. Hill Publishing Date: 2013 File Size: 444 KB Print Length: 228 pages Language: English ASIN: B00DYFOFTK Format: Kindle Edition Text-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Lending: Not Enabled Buy at Amazon

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Sothea wants to be a famous writer, the most famous in all of Cambodia, to write about her life, and all the bad things that happen to children in her country. And the good things, as well. Her best friend suggests that there needs to be romance too, as all the best stories have a romance.

Sokhem wants to be a web designer, and to create his own site, uncovering the things that nobody likes to talk about in Cambodia; the stuff that gets swept under the rug. His little brother, Vithu, wants to change the world, after he has finished school, gone to university, traveled, and read everything there is to read and learned everything that can be learned.

Kosal worries for his country, and feels that the Cambodian people are lost. His master has sent him from the pagoda on a seven year pilgrimage to find understanding, and perhaps even enlightenment.

The Scent of Rumduol is a modern day tale of stolen childhoods; of children forced to survive the exigencies of a world epitomized by poverty, violence, drugs, child exploitation, and sexual abuse. It is the story of four orphans whose lives touch, and are touched, by others - including a teenage prostitute, a former Khmer Rouge guard, and a disillusioned aid worker - in ways nobody could ever have imagined.

It is a story of hope, resolve, love, karma, and, ultimately, of triumph over adversity.

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The Disappeared [Paperback]

The Disappeared [Paperback]

The Disappeared [Paperback]

Author: Kim Echlin Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat Publishing Date: 2009 Paperback: 224 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0802170668 ASIN: B0058M6C84 Format: Paperback Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches Shipping Weight: 12 ounces Buy at Amazon

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After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields. Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she falls in love with Serey, a gentle rebel and exiled musician. She's still only 16 when he leaves her in their Montreal flat to return to Cambodia And, after a decade without word, she abandons everything to search for him in the bars of Phnom Penh, a city traumatized by the Khmer Rouge slaughter. Against all odds the lovers are reunited, and in a political country where tranquil rice paddies harbour the bones of the massacred, Anne pieces together a new life with Serey. But there are wounds that love cannot heal, and some mysteries too dangerous to know. And when Serey disappears again, Anne discovers a story she cannot bear. Haunting, vivid, elegiac, The Disappeared is a tour de force; at once a battle cry and a piercing lamentation, for truth, for love.

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Author: Kim Echlin Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat Publishing Date: 2009 Paperback: 224 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0802170668 ASIN: B0058M6C84 Format: Paperback Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches Shipping Weight: 12 ounces Buy at Amazon

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After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields. Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she falls in love with Serey, a gentle rebel and exiled musician. She's still only 16 when he leaves her in their Montreal flat to return to Cambodia And, after a decade without word, she abandons everything to search for him in the bars of Phnom Penh, a city traumatized by the Khmer Rouge slaughter. Against all odds the lovers are reunited, and in a political country where tranquil rice paddies harbour the bones of the massacred, Anne pieces together a new life with Serey. But there are wounds that love cannot heal, and some mysteries too dangerous to know. And when Serey disappears again, Anne discovers a story she cannot bear. Haunting, vivid, elegiac, The Disappeared is a tour de force; at once a battle cry and a piercing lamentation, for truth, for love.

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A Song for Cambodia [Hardcover]

A Song for Cambodia [Hardcover]

A Song for Cambodia [Hardcover]

Author: Michelle Lord, Shino Arihara (Illustrator) Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publishing Date: 2008 Hardcover: 32 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1600601391 ISBN-13: 978-1600601392 Format: Hardcover Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.5 x 10.6 inches Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces Buy at Amazon

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When Arn was a young boy in Cambodia, his days were filled with love, laughter, and the sweet sounds of music. That all changed suddenly in 1975 when Arn's village was invaded by Khmer Rouge soldiers and his family was torn apart.

Nine-year-old Arn was taken to a children's work camp, where he labored long hours in the rice fields under the glaring eyes of threatening soldiers. Overworked, underfed, and in constant fear for his life, Arn had to find a way to survive. When guards asked for volunteers to play music one day, Arn bravely raised his hand-taking a chance that would change the course of his life.

A Song for Cambodia is the inspirational true story of Arn Chorn-Pond. His heartfelt music created beauty in a time of darkness and turned tragedy into healing.

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Author: Michelle Lord, Shino Arihara (Illustrator) Publisher: Lee & Low Books Publishing Date: 2008 Hardcover: 32 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1600601391 ISBN-13: 978-1600601392 Format: Hardcover Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.5 x 10.6 inches Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces Buy at Amazon

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When Arn was a young boy in Cambodia, his days were filled with love, laughter, and the sweet sounds of music. That all changed suddenly in 1975 when Arn's village was invaded by Khmer Rouge soldiers and his family was torn apart.

Nine-year-old Arn was taken to a children's work camp, where he labored long hours in the rice fields under the glaring eyes of threatening soldiers. Overworked, underfed, and in constant fear for his life, Arn had to find a way to survive. When guards asked for volunteers to play music one day, Arn bravely raised his hand-taking a chance that would change the course of his life.

A Song for Cambodia is the inspirational true story of Arn Chorn-Pond. His heartfelt music created beauty in a time of darkness and turned tragedy into healing.

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At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler [Hardcover]

At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler [Hardcover]

At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler [Hardcover]

Author: Anne Ruth Hansen (Editor), Judy Ledgerwood (Editor) Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia Program Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2008 Hardcover: 248 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0877277761 ISBN-13: 978-0877277767 Format: Hardcover, Paperback Series: Studies of Southeast Asia Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Inspired by the groundbreaking work of David Chandler on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, the "forest" and cultured space, and the fraught "edge" where they meet. Taken together, the essays offer a post-colonial analysis of Cambodia's emergence from genocide that explores the relationship between narrative, history, and perplexing problems of meaning.

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Author: Anne Ruth Hansen (Editor), Judy Ledgerwood (Editor) Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia Program Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2008 Hardcover: 248 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0877277761 ISBN-13: 978-0877277767 Format: Hardcover, Paperback Series: Studies of Southeast Asia Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Inspired by the groundbreaking work of David Chandler on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, the "forest" and cultured space, and the fraught "edge" where they meet. Taken together, the essays offer a post-colonial analysis of Cambodia's emergence from genocide that explores the relationship between narrative, history, and perplexing problems of meaning.

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At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler [Paperback]

At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler [Paperback]

At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler [Paperback]

Author: Anne Ruth Hansen (Editor), Judy Ledgerwood (Editor) Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia Program Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2008 Paperback: 248 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 087727746X ISBN-13: 978-0877277460 Format: Paperback, Hardcover Series: Studies on Southeast Asia Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.8 x 9.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Inspired by the groundbreaking work of David Chandler on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, the "forest" and cultured space, and the fraught "edge" where they meet. Taken together, the essays offer a post-colonial analysis of Cambodia's emergence from genocide that explores the relationship between narrative, history, and perplexing problems of meaning.

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Author: Anne Ruth Hansen (Editor), Judy Ledgerwood (Editor) Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia Program Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2008 Paperback: 248 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 087727746X ISBN-13: 978-0877277460 Format: Paperback, Hardcover Series: Studies on Southeast Asia Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.8 x 9.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Inspired by the groundbreaking work of David Chandler on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, the "forest" and cultured space, and the fraught "edge" where they meet. Taken together, the essays offer a post-colonial analysis of Cambodia's emergence from genocide that explores the relationship between narrative, history, and perplexing problems of meaning.

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The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing fields [Hardcover]

The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing fields [Hardcover]

The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing fields [Hardcover]

Author: Rithy Panh, Christophe Bataille, John Cullen (Translator) Publisher: Other Press Publishing Date: 2013 Hardcover: 288 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1590515587 ISBN-13: 978-1590515587 Format: Hardcover Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces Buy at Amazon

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From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor’s autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship.

Rithy Panh was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death. Thirty years later, after having become a respected filmmaker, Rithy Panh decides to question one of the men principally responsible for the genocide, Comrade Duch, who’s neither an ordinary person nor a demon—he’s an educated organizer, a slaughterer who talks, forgets, lies, explains, and works on his legacy. This confrontation unfolds into an exceptional narrative of human history and an examination of the nature of evil.

The Elimination stands among the essential works that document the immense tragedies of the twentieth century, with Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Elie Wiesel’s Night.

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Author: Rithy Panh, Christophe Bataille, John Cullen (Translator) Publisher: Other Press Publishing Date: 2013 Hardcover: 288 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1590515587 ISBN-13: 978-1590515587 Format: Hardcover Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces Buy at Amazon

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From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor’s autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship.

Rithy Panh was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death. Thirty years later, after having become a respected filmmaker, Rithy Panh decides to question one of the men principally responsible for the genocide, Comrade Duch, who’s neither an ordinary person nor a demon—he’s an educated organizer, a slaughterer who talks, forgets, lies, explains, and works on his legacy. This confrontation unfolds into an exceptional narrative of human history and an examination of the nature of evil.

The Elimination stands among the essential works that document the immense tragedies of the twentieth century, with Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Elie Wiesel’s Night.

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Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh [Paperback]

Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh [Paperback]

Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh [Paperback]

Author: Anne Elizabeth Moore, Mu Sochua (Editor), Watson Esther Pearl (Illustrator) Publisher: Cantankerous Titles Publishing Date: 2011 Paperback: 96 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1934620890 ISBN-13: 978-1934620892 Format: Paperback Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 7 inches Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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In Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, writer and independent publisher Anne Elizabeth Moore brings her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia, a country known mostly for the savage extermination of around 2 million of its own under the four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge. Following the publication of her critically acclaimed book Unmarketable and the demise of the magazine she co-published, Punk Planet, and armed with the knowledge that the second generation of genocide survivors in Cambodia had little knowledge of their country's brutal history, Moore disembarked to Southeast Asia hoping to teach young women how to make zines. What she learned instead were brutal truths about women's rights, the politics of corruption, the failures of democracy, the mechanism of globalization, and a profound emotional connection that can only be called love. Moore's fascinating story from the cusp of the global economic meltdown is a look at her time with the first all-women's dormitory in the history of the country, just kilometers away from the notorious Killing Fields. Her tale is a noble one, as heartbreaking as it is hilarious; staunchly ethical yet conflicted and human. The in-depth examination of Moore's stint among the first large group of social-justice-minded young women from the impoverished provinces is told in intimate, mood-evocative, beautifully-written first-person prose. Cambodian Grrrl is the first in a series of short essay collections on contemporary media, art, and educational work by, for, and with young women in Southeast Asia. Part memoir and part investigative report, Moore's story could only be told by her, and the result is illuminating, and vital, reading.

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Author: Anne Elizabeth Moore, Mu Sochua (Editor), Watson Esther Pearl (Illustrator) Publisher: Cantankerous Titles Publishing Date: 2011 Paperback: 96 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1934620890 ISBN-13: 978-1934620892 Format: Paperback Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 7 inches Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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In Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, writer and independent publisher Anne Elizabeth Moore brings her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia, a country known mostly for the savage extermination of around 2 million of its own under the four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge. Following the publication of her critically acclaimed book Unmarketable and the demise of the magazine she co-published, Punk Planet, and armed with the knowledge that the second generation of genocide survivors in Cambodia had little knowledge of their country's brutal history, Moore disembarked to Southeast Asia hoping to teach young women how to make zines. What she learned instead were brutal truths about women's rights, the politics of corruption, the failures of democracy, the mechanism of globalization, and a profound emotional connection that can only be called love. Moore's fascinating story from the cusp of the global economic meltdown is a look at her time with the first all-women's dormitory in the history of the country, just kilometers away from the notorious Killing Fields. Her tale is a noble one, as heartbreaking as it is hilarious; staunchly ethical yet conflicted and human. The in-depth examination of Moore's stint among the first large group of social-justice-minded young women from the impoverished provinces is told in intimate, mood-evocative, beautifully-written first-person prose. Cambodian Grrrl is the first in a series of short essay collections on contemporary media, art, and educational work by, for, and with young women in Southeast Asia. Part memoir and part investigative report, Moore's story could only be told by her, and the result is illuminating, and vital, reading.

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The Rent Collector [Hardcover]

The Rent Collector [Hardcover]

The Rent Collector [Hardcover]

Author: Camron Wright Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2012 Hardcover: 304 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1609071220 ISBN-13: 978-1609071226 Format: Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Paperback Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money--a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman journey to save her son and another women chance at redemption. It demonstrates that even in a dump in Cambodia--perhaps especially in a dump in Cambodia--everyone deserves a second chance.

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Author: Camron Wright Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2012 Hardcover: 304 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1609071220 ISBN-13: 978-1609071226 Format: Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Paperback Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money--a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman journey to save her son and another women chance at redemption. It demonstrates that even in a dump in Cambodia--perhaps especially in a dump in Cambodia--everyone deserves a second chance.

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Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness [Paperback]

Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness [Paperback]

Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness [Paperback]

Author: Loung Ung Publisher: Harper Perennial Publishing Date: Original Edition, 2012 Paperback: 368 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0062091913 ISBN-13: 978-0062091918 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition Series: P.S. Product Dimensions: 1 x 5.8 x 8.5 inches Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Concluding the trilogy that started with her bestselling memoir, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung illuminates her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward toward happiness.

When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with post-traumatic stress, cultural assimilation roadblocks, and the abandonment of her sister in Cambodia.

Now, Lulu in the Sky tells the next chapter in Ung's life, revealing her daily struggle to keep darkness and depression at bay while she attends college and falls in love with Mark Priemer, a Midwestern archetype of American optimism. Lulu in the Sky is the story of Ung's tentative steps into love, activism, and marriage—a journey that takes her to a Cambodian village to reconnect with her mother's spirit, to a vocation focused on healing the landscape of her birth, and to the patience and unconditional support of a very special man.

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Author: Loung Ung Publisher: Harper Perennial Publishing Date: Original Edition, 2012 Paperback: 368 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0062091913 ISBN-13: 978-0062091918 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition Series: P.S. Product Dimensions: 1 x 5.8 x 8.5 inches Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Concluding the trilogy that started with her bestselling memoir, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung illuminates her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward toward happiness.

When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with post-traumatic stress, cultural assimilation roadblocks, and the abandonment of her sister in Cambodia.

Now, Lulu in the Sky tells the next chapter in Ung's life, revealing her daily struggle to keep darkness and depression at bay while she attends college and falls in love with Mark Priemer, a Midwestern archetype of American optimism. Lulu in the Sky is the story of Ung's tentative steps into love, activism, and marriage—a journey that takes her to a Cambodian village to reconnect with her mother's spirit, to a vocation focused on healing the landscape of her birth, and to the patience and unconditional support of a very special man.

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Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide [Hardcover]

Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide [Hardcover]

Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide [Hardcover]

Author: Icy Smith, Sopaul Nhem (Illustrator) Publisher: East West Discovery Press Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2010 Hardcover: 44 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 098216758X ISBN-13: 978-0982167588 Format: Hardcover Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 11 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Nine-year-old Nat is forced out of his Cambodian home and marched into the countryside when the Khmer Rouge comes into power. Nat is separated from his family and endures forced labor in rice fields from dawn to midnight with little food. Over the next four years, Nat confronts starvation, fear, and brutality. With the help of his friend Malis, Nat finds hope and the strength to escape, eventually reuniting with the family he loves. Half Spoon of Rice is based on true stories of courage, friendship, survival, and the triumph of the human spirit. The book features vivid illustrations and historical photographs documenting the Cambodian genocide from 1975 to 1979.

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Author: Icy Smith, Sopaul Nhem (Illustrator) Publisher: East West Discovery Press Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2010 Hardcover: 44 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 098216758X ISBN-13: 978-0982167588 Format: Hardcover Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 11 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Nine-year-old Nat is forced out of his Cambodian home and marched into the countryside when the Khmer Rouge comes into power. Nat is separated from his family and endures forced labor in rice fields from dawn to midnight with little food. Over the next four years, Nat confronts starvation, fear, and brutality. With the help of his friend Malis, Nat finds hope and the strength to escape, eventually reuniting with the family he loves. Half Spoon of Rice is based on true stories of courage, friendship, survival, and the triumph of the human spirit. The book features vivid illustrations and historical photographs documenting the Cambodian genocide from 1975 to 1979.

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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare [Paperback]

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare [Paperback]

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare [Paperback]

Author: Philip Short Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Publishing Date: 2006 Paperback: 560 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0805080066 ISBN-13: 978-0805080063 Format: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.5 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds Buy at Amazon

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“The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative... [Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true.” —The New York Times Book Review (front page)

Observing Pol Pot at close quarters during the one and only official visit he ever made abroad, to China in 1975, Philip Short was struck by the Cambodian leader’s charm and charisma. Yet Pol Pot’s utopian experiments in social engineering would result in the death of one in every five Cambodians—more than a million people.

How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity’s worst nightmares? To answer these questions, Short traveled through Cambodia, interviewing former Khmer Rouge leaders and sifting through previously closed archives around the world. Key figures, including Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary, Pol’s brother-in-law and foreign minister, speak here for the first time.

Short’s masterly narrative serves as the definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times.

“Short chronicles the stages of the Cambodian revolution with admirable clarity... A few chilling details, expertly deployed, do the necessary work.” —The New York Times

“A spectacularly efficient job of describing what happened and why... A chillingly clear portrait.” —The Economist

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Author: Philip Short Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Publishing Date: 2006 Paperback: 560 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0805080066 ISBN-13: 978-0805080063 Format: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.5 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds Buy at Amazon

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“The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative... [Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true.” —The New York Times Book Review (front page)

Observing Pol Pot at close quarters during the one and only official visit he ever made abroad, to China in 1975, Philip Short was struck by the Cambodian leader’s charm and charisma. Yet Pol Pot’s utopian experiments in social engineering would result in the death of one in every five Cambodians—more than a million people.

How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity’s worst nightmares? To answer these questions, Short traveled through Cambodia, interviewing former Khmer Rouge leaders and sifting through previously closed archives around the world. Key figures, including Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary, Pol’s brother-in-law and foreign minister, speak here for the first time.

Short’s masterly narrative serves as the definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times.

“Short chronicles the stages of the Cambodian revolution with admirable clarity... A few chilling details, expertly deployed, do the necessary work.” —The New York Times

“A spectacularly efficient job of describing what happened and why... A chillingly clear portrait.” —The Economist

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Little Mountain [Paperback]

Little Mountain [Paperback]

Little Mountain [Paperback]

Author: Bob Sanchez Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Publishing Date: 2011 Paperback: 268 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1451539029 ISBN-13: 978-1451539028 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.9 x 8.9 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Cambodian refugee Sam Long becomes an American citizen and eventually a homicide detective. A murder in a Massachusetts refugee community revives ghosts from his past. He must solve the crime and face down his demons if he is to find his own peace.

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Author: Bob Sanchez Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Publishing Date: 2011 Paperback: 268 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1451539029 ISBN-13: 978-1451539028 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.9 x 8.9 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Cambodian refugee Sam Long becomes an American citizen and eventually a homicide detective. A murder in a Massachusetts refugee community revives ghosts from his past. He must solve the crime and face down his demons if he is to find his own peace.

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Sinat & The Instrument of the Heart: A Story of Cambodia [Hardcover]

Sinat & The Instrument of the Heart: A Story of Cambodia [Hardcover]

Sinat & The Instrument of the Heart: A Story of Cambodia [Hardcover]

Author: Chath pierSath, Vann Nath & Phal Pouriseth (Illustrator) Publisher: Soundprints Corp Audio Publishing Date: 2010 Hardcover: 32 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1607270870 ISBN-13: 978-1607270874 Format: Hardcover, Paperback Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.1 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Sinat is a young boy from Cambodia. He learns to play a thousand-year-old string instrument from its last great living master. This story is based on the real-life experience of a Cambodian boy named Sinat, whose actual musical performance is featured on the audio CD that is featured with this book. Sinat & the Instrument of the Heart gives readers a fun and unique insight of a different culture, and a sense of what life might be like for a child growing up in Cambodia. An audiobook is also included with select purchases to download at soundprints.com.

Book Features:

• 32 pages
• Full-color illustrations
• Bonus facts about Cambodia
• Hard cover: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches

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Author: Chath pierSath, Vann Nath & Phal Pouriseth (Illustrator) Publisher: Soundprints Corp Audio Publishing Date: 2010 Hardcover: 32 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1607270870 ISBN-13: 978-1607270874 Format: Hardcover, Paperback Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.1 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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Sinat is a young boy from Cambodia. He learns to play a thousand-year-old string instrument from its last great living master. This story is based on the real-life experience of a Cambodian boy named Sinat, whose actual musical performance is featured on the audio CD that is featured with this book. Sinat & the Instrument of the Heart gives readers a fun and unique insight of a different culture, and a sense of what life might be like for a child growing up in Cambodia. An audiobook is also included with select purchases to download at soundprints.com.

Book Features:

• 32 pages
• Full-color illustrations
• Bonus facts about Cambodia
• Hard cover: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches

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In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel [Hardcover]

In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel [Hardcover]

In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel [Hardcover]

Author: Vaddey Ratner Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2012 Hardcover: 336 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1451657706 ISBN-13: 978-1451657708 Format: Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Paperback Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6.2 x 9.1 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds Buy at Amazon

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You are about to read an extraordinary story. It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable horrors. It will reveal a gorgeously rich culture struggling to survive through a furtive bow, a hidden ankle bracelet, fragments of remembered poetry. It will ensure that the world never forgets the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, when an estimated two million people lost their lives. It will give you hope, and it will confirm the power of storytelling to lift us up and help us not only survive but transcend suffering, cruelty, and loss.

For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours, bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. Soon the family’s world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as the Khmer Rouge attempts to strip the population of every shred of individual identity, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of her childhood— the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author’s extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience.

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Author: Vaddey Ratner Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2012 Hardcover: 336 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1451657706 ISBN-13: 978-1451657708 Format: Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Paperback Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6.2 x 9.1 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds Buy at Amazon

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You are about to read an extraordinary story. It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable horrors. It will reveal a gorgeously rich culture struggling to survive through a furtive bow, a hidden ankle bracelet, fragments of remembered poetry. It will ensure that the world never forgets the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, when an estimated two million people lost their lives. It will give you hope, and it will confirm the power of storytelling to lift us up and help us not only survive but transcend suffering, cruelty, and loss.

For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours, bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. Soon the family’s world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as the Khmer Rouge attempts to strip the population of every shred of individual identity, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of her childhood— the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author’s extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience.

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Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims [Paperback]

Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims [Paperback]

Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims [Paperback]

Author: Huy Vannak, Seth Mydans (Foreword) Publisher: Documentation Center of Cambodia Publishing Date: 2010 Paperback: 80 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 9995060191 ISBN-13: 978-9995060190 Format: Paperback Product Dimensions: ... Shipping Weight: ... Buy at Amazon

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Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims

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Author: Huy Vannak, Seth Mydans (Foreword) Publisher: Documentation Center of Cambodia Publishing Date: 2010 Paperback: 80 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 9995060191 ISBN-13: 978-9995060190 Format: Paperback Product Dimensions: ... Shipping Weight: ... Buy at Amazon

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Bou Meng: A Survivor From Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, Justice for the Future Not Just for the Victims

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Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide [Hardcover]

Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide [Hardcover]

Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide [Hardcover]

Author: Nawuth Keat, Martha Kendall Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2009 Hardcover: 112 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 142630515X ISBN-13: 978-1426305153 Format: Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Paperback Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Alive in the Killing Fields is the real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia. He has now broken a longtime silence in the hope that telling the truth about what happened to his people and his country will spare future generations from similar tragedy.

In this captivating memoir, a young Nawuth defies the odds and survives the invasion of his homeland by the Khmer Rouge. Under the brutal reign of the dictator Pol Pot, he loses his parents, young sister, and other members of his family. After his hometown of Salatrave was overrun, Nawuth and his remaining relatives are eventually captured and enslaved by Khmer Rouge fighters. They endure physical abuse, hunger, and inhumane living conditions. But through it all, their sense of family holds them together, giving them the strength to persevere through a time when any assertion of identity is punishable by death.

Nawuth’s story of survival and escape from the Killing Fields of Cambodia is also a message of hope; an inspiration to children whose worlds have been darkened by hardship and separation from loved ones. This story provides a timeless lesson in the value of human dignity and freedom for readers of all ages.

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Author: Nawuth Keat, Martha Kendall Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books Publishing Date: 1st Edition, 2009 Hardcover: 112 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 142630515X ISBN-13: 978-1426305153 Format: Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Paperback Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Alive in the Killing Fields is the real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia. He has now broken a longtime silence in the hope that telling the truth about what happened to his people and his country will spare future generations from similar tragedy.

In this captivating memoir, a young Nawuth defies the odds and survives the invasion of his homeland by the Khmer Rouge. Under the brutal reign of the dictator Pol Pot, he loses his parents, young sister, and other members of his family. After his hometown of Salatrave was overrun, Nawuth and his remaining relatives are eventually captured and enslaved by Khmer Rouge fighters. They endure physical abuse, hunger, and inhumane living conditions. But through it all, their sense of family holds them together, giving them the strength to persevere through a time when any assertion of identity is punishable by death.

Nawuth’s story of survival and escape from the Killing Fields of Cambodia is also a message of hope; an inspiration to children whose worlds have been darkened by hardship and separation from loved ones. This story provides a timeless lesson in the value of human dignity and freedom for readers of all ages.

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Survival in the Killing Fields [Paperback]

Survival in the Killing Fields [Paperback]

Survival in the Killing Fields [Paperback]

Author: Haing Ngor, Roger Warner (Contributor) Publisher: Basic Books Publishing Date: 2003 Paperback: 528 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0786713151 ISBN-13: 978-0786713158 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 7.4 inches Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am," says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he tells the gripping and frequently terrifying story of his term in the hell created by the communist Khmer Rouge. Like Dith Pran, the Cambodian doctor and interpreter whom Ngor played in an Oscar-winning performance in The Killing Fields, Ngor lived through the atrocities that the 1984 film portrayed. Like Pran, too, Ngor was a doctor by profession, and he experienced firsthand his country's wretched descent, under the Khmer Rouge, into senseless brutality, slavery, squalor, starvation, and disease—all of which are recounted in sometimes unimaginable horror in Ngor's poignant memoir. Since the original publication of this searing personal chronicle, Haing Ngor's life has ended with his murder, which has never been satisfactorily solved. In an epilogue written especially for this new edition, Ngor's coauthor, Roger Warner, offers a glimpse into this complex, enigmatic man's last years—years that he lived "like his country: scarred, and incapable of fully healing."

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Author: Haing Ngor, Roger Warner (Contributor) Publisher: Basic Books Publishing Date: 2003 Paperback: 528 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0786713151 ISBN-13: 978-0786713158 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 7.4 inches Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am," says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he tells the gripping and frequently terrifying story of his term in the hell created by the communist Khmer Rouge. Like Dith Pran, the Cambodian doctor and interpreter whom Ngor played in an Oscar-winning performance in The Killing Fields, Ngor lived through the atrocities that the 1984 film portrayed. Like Pran, too, Ngor was a doctor by profession, and he experienced firsthand his country's wretched descent, under the Khmer Rouge, into senseless brutality, slavery, squalor, starvation, and disease—all of which are recounted in sometimes unimaginable horror in Ngor's poignant memoir. Since the original publication of this searing personal chronicle, Haing Ngor's life has ended with his murder, which has never been satisfactorily solved. In an epilogue written especially for this new edition, Ngor's coauthor, Roger Warner, offers a glimpse into this complex, enigmatic man's last years—years that he lived "like his country: scarred, and incapable of fully healing."

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The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine [Paperback]

The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine [Paperback]

The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine [Paperback]

Author: Somaly Mam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Introduction), Nicholas D. Kristof (Foreword) Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Publishing Date: Reprint Edition, 2009 Paperback: 224 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0385526229 ISBN-13: 978-0385526227 Format: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 4.9 x 7.6 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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A riveting and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope–by a woman named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. She suffered unspeakable acts of brutality and witnessed horrors that would haunt her for the rest of her life–until, in her early twenties, she managed to escape. Unable to forget the girls she left behind, Mam became a tenacious and brave leader in the fight against human trafficking, rescuing sex workers–some as young as five and six–offering them shelter, rehabilitation, healing, and love and leading them into new life.

Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence is a memoir that will leave you awestruck by the courage and strength of this extraordinary woman and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change.

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Author: Somaly Mam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Introduction), Nicholas D. Kristof (Foreword) Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Publishing Date: Reprint Edition, 2009 Paperback: 224 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0385526229 ISBN-13: 978-0385526227 Format: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 4.9 x 7.6 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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A riveting and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope–by a woman named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. She suffered unspeakable acts of brutality and witnessed horrors that would haunt her for the rest of her life–until, in her early twenties, she managed to escape. Unable to forget the girls she left behind, Mam became a tenacious and brave leader in the fight against human trafficking, rescuing sex workers–some as young as five and six–offering them shelter, rehabilitation, healing, and love and leading them into new life.

Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence is a memoir that will leave you awestruck by the courage and strength of this extraordinary woman and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change.

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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge [Paperback]

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge [Paperback]

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge [Paperback]

Author: Chanrithy Him Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publishing Date: 2001 Paperback: 330 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0393322106 ISBN-13: 978-0393322101 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition, Hardcover Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.6 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."

In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell of the "killing fields." In a mesmerizing story, Him vividly recounts a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps are the norm and technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer exists. Death becomes a companion at the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, Chanrithy's family remains loyal to one another despite the Khmer Rouge's demand of loyalty only to itself. Moments of inexpressible sacrifice and love lead them to bring what little food they have to the others, even at the risk of their own lives. In 1979, "broken glass" finally sinks. From a family of twelve, only five of the Him children survive. Sponsored by an uncle in Oregon, they begin their new lives in a land that promises welcome to those starved for freedom. 15 black and white illustrations

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Author: Chanrithy Him Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publishing Date: 2001 Paperback: 330 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0393322106 ISBN-13: 978-0393322101 Format: Paperback, Kindle Edition, Hardcover Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.6 x 8.3 inches Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces Buy at Amazon

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Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."

In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell of the "killing fields." In a mesmerizing story, Him vividly recounts a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps are the norm and technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer exists. Death becomes a companion at the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, Chanrithy's family remains loyal to one another despite the Khmer Rouge's demand of loyalty only to itself. Moments of inexpressible sacrifice and love lead them to bring what little food they have to the others, even at the risk of their own lives. In 1979, "broken glass" finally sinks. From a family of twelve, only five of the Him children survive. Sponsored by an uncle in Oregon, they begin their new lives in a land that promises welcome to those starved for freedom. 15 black and white illustrations

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Facing Death in Cambodia [Hardcover]

Facing Death in Cambodia [Hardcover]

Facing Death in Cambodia [Hardcover]

Author: Peter Maguire Publisher: Columbia University Press Publishing Date: 2nd Edition, 2005 Hardcover: 280 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0231120524 ISBN-13: 978-0231120524 Format: Hardcover, Paperback Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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The Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force of arms, then committed the most brazen crimes since the Third Reich: at least 1.5 million people murdered between 1975 and 1979. Yet no individuals were ever tried or punished. This book is the story of Peter Maguire's effort to learn how Cambodia's "culture of impunity" developed, why it persists, and the failures of the "international community" to confront the Cambodian genocide. Written from a personal and historical perspective, Facing Death in Cambodia recounts Maguire's growing anguish over the gap between theories of universal justice and political realities.

Maguire documents the atrocities and the aftermath through personal interviews with victims and perpetrators, discussions with international and NGO officials, journalistic accounts, and government sources gathered during a ten-year odyssey in search of answers. The book includes a selection of haunting pictures from among the thousands taken at the now infamous Tuol Sleng prison (also referred to as S-21), through which at least 14,000 men, women, and children passed -- and from which fewer than a dozen emerged alive.

What he discovered raises troubling questions: Was the Cambodian genocide a preview of the genocidal civil wars that would follow in the wake of the Cold War? Is international justice an attainable idea or a fiction superimposed over an unbearably dark reality? Did issues of political expediency allow Cambodian leaders to escape prosecution?The Khmer Rouge violated the Nuremberg Principles, the United Nations Charter, the laws of war, and the UN Genocide Convention. Yet in the decade after the regime's collapse, the perpetrators were rescued and rehabilitated-even rewarded-by China, Thailand, the United States, and the UN. According to Peter Maguire, Cambodia holds the key to understanding why recent UN interventions throughout the world have failed to prevent atrocities and to enforce treaties.

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Author: Peter Maguire Publisher: Columbia University Press Publishing Date: 2nd Edition, 2005 Hardcover: 280 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0231120524 ISBN-13: 978-0231120524 Format: Hardcover, Paperback Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Buy at Amazon

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The Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force of arms, then committed the most brazen crimes since the Third Reich: at least 1.5 million people murdered between 1975 and 1979. Yet no individuals were ever tried or punished. This book is the story of Peter Maguire's effort to learn how Cambodia's "culture of impunity" developed, why it persists, and the failures of the "international community" to confront the Cambodian genocide. Written from a personal and historical perspective, Facing Death in Cambodia recounts Maguire's growing anguish over the gap between theories of universal justice and political realities.

Maguire documents the atrocities and the aftermath through personal interviews with victims and perpetrators, discussions with international and NGO officials, journalistic accounts, and government sources gathered during a ten-year odyssey in search of answers. The book includes a selection of haunting pictures from among the thousands taken at the now infamous Tuol Sleng prison (also referred to as S-21), through which at least 14,000 men, women, and children passed -- and from which fewer than a dozen emerged alive.

What he discovered raises troubling questions: Was the Cambodian genocide a preview of the genocidal civil wars that would follow in the wake of the Cold War? Is international justice an attainable idea or a fiction superimposed over an unbearably dark reality? Did issues of political expediency allow Cambodian leaders to escape prosecution?The Khmer Rouge violated the Nuremberg Principles, the United Nations Charter, the laws of war, and the UN Genocide Convention. Yet in the decade after the regime's collapse, the perpetrators were rescued and rehabilitated-even rewarded-by China, Thailand, the United States, and the UN. According to Peter Maguire, Cambodia holds the key to understanding why recent UN interventions throughout the world have failed to prevent atrocities and to enforce treaties.

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