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Author Lunn, Richard.

Title Leaving year zero : stories of surviving Pol Pot's Cambodia / Richard Lunn
Published Crawley, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2004

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 W'PONDS  959.60420922 Lun/Lyz  AVAILABLE
 MELB  959.60420922 Lun/Lyz  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 213 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
regular print
Contents Leaving year zero / Soour Hai Gov -- Field of fire / Seak Choung and Seak Ay -- A village in the West / Sophy Coade -- A new person / Tek Heang Ya -- Out of earth / Chong-Hean Ang
Summary Compelling, powerful accounts which vividly involve the reader in the experiences of six Khmer individuals reacting to the dramatic upheavals of a society gone terribly wrong. They explore the remarkable resilience and strength of character shown by each, as they attempt to reconstruct their post-trauma lives in Australia
Analysis Refugees
Cambodia
Autobiography
Anecdotes
Khmer Rouge
State sponsored violence
History, 1946-1999
20th Century history (c 1914+) (Australia,Cambodia)
Subject Political refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography.
Political refugees -- Australia -- Biography.
Cambodians -- Australia -- Biography.
SUBJECT Cambodia -- History -- Civil War, 1970-1975 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019091 -- Refugees http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007585 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Cambodia -- History -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019089 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019095
Cambodia -- History -- Civil War, 1970-1975 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019091 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019092 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Genre/Form Biography.
History.
Biographies.
LC no. 2004484150
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