| Description |
330 pages, <6> pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Family Tree -- Preface: A Seed of Survival -- A Heavenly Comet Foreshadows War -- B-cinquante-deux -- A Grain of Rice on a Dog's Tail -- When Broken Glass Begins to Float -- There Are No Good-byes -- Worse Than Pigs -- Remnants of Ghosts -- When the Owl Cries -- Now I Know the Answer -- The Spirit of Survival -- A Promise -- Though a Virgin, I'm Called an Old Man -- Mass Marriage and a Forbidden Love -- When Broken Glass Sinks -- A Letter -- The Exodus -- The New Camp -- Khao I Dang Camp -- Sakeo II Camp -- Philippine Refugee Processing Center |
| Summary |
A survivor of the Cambodian genocide recounts a childhood in Cambodia, where rudimentary labor camps filled with death and illness were the norm and modern technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer existed |
| Notes |
Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction, 2001 |
| Subject |
Him, Chanrithy, 1965-
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Political atrocities -- Cambodia.
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Political refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography.
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Political refugees -- Cambodia.
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Political refugees -- United States -- Biography.
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Political refugees -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019095
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| LC no. |
99058417 |
| ISBN |
0393048632 |
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