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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Chanrithy Him; Chanrithy Him |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Chanrithy Him |
| ISBN: | 0393048632 9780393048636 |
| OCLC Number: | 42849747 |
| Awards: | Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction, 2001. |
| Description: | 330 p. : ill., 1 map ; 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. |
| Responsibility: | Chanrithy Him. |
Abstract:
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.
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