About this title: In this memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian who was a child at the time recalls the terror and loss endured by her family and the devastating cost to Cambodian society under the Pol Pot regime. She also recalls the bonds formed among families and strangers and acts of kindness in a time of devastation.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2001-04
ISBN-13:9780393322101ISBN:0393322106
Description: Very Good. 2001 paperback, no marks noted in text, All of our products are cleaned with an disinfectant for your protection before shipping. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780393322101ISBN:0393322106
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2001-04-01
ISBN-13:9780393322101ISBN:0393322106
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2000-04
ISBN-13:9780393048636ISBN:0393048632
Description: Very Good. 2000 stated first edition hardback no marks and is in very good condition with dust cover All of our products are cleaned with an disinfectant for your protection before shipping. read more
Binding: Second
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393048636ISBN:0393048632
Description: very good, very good. 330. The author gives a child's-eye view of a Cambodia with labor camps and no modern technology. From a family of 12, 5 of the Him children survived andmoved to Oregon, sponsored by an uncle, in 1981. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: WW NORTON & CO Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780393322101ISBN:0393322106
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 330 pages. (330 pages) this is one of the first childhood memoirs to emerge from the hell of cambodia under the khmer rouge. capturing the overwhelming immediacy of the baffling events, chanrithy him writes through the eyes of her younger self in the present tense, recounting her trek through the "killing fields". 15photos edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Description: Good. Inscribed and signed. no dj. staining on cover and edges. tanning on edges., Used-Good. Sound Copy. Mild Reading Wear. Books uploaded via isbn and stock photos may be different than actual book. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393048636ISBN:0393048632
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library Ex-library copy, very few library markings. Firm hinges, no owner marks in text, little wear to cover or jacket. world hist. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON & CO INC
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780393322101ISBN:0393322106
Description: New. In this luminous memoir, Chanrithy Him takes readers into the chaotic world of the Khmer Rouge. Over the course of four years five members of her family, including her parents, die, and so do nearly two million other Khmer. Out of shards of memory, s... read more
"I read this for class. I even heard "Map" talk about his experiences.
It's been several years since I read it, so I don't really remember all of it (hence 3 stars). But I loved the story behind the title, which is explained somewhere in the book."
"I wanted to know more about the history of that era in Cambodia and I guess I wanted a more straigtforward telling. This book is narrated through the eyes of a child (Chanrithy Him, the author, which for me doesn't work for this kind of book. Some of the story is very compelling andn well-written, however."
"This turned out to be one of the very best personal accounts of survival during the Pol Pot Regime. I've read eight others, mostly by women who were children or in their early teens at the time. Chanrithy Him's prose is smooth and engrossing--after the first chapter, which was hard to get through, full of angry bitterness over her experiences; perfectly understandable, but it doesn't draw the reader in, just establishes a barrier. After this, however, she warms up to her subject and paints a vibrant picture of her agonizing struggle for survival during which she loses three siblings and her mother to starvation and her father to a Khmer Rouge death squad. Told in the present tense, the prose is vivid and moves easily back and forth between her internal emotions and the events of her story, and is especially good about explaining cultural and linguistic characteristics relevant to the story. But we can tell that she is not a professional writer: many words are overused and descriptions are repetitive: houses are compared to mushrooms in at least five places. There is also at least one historical error: Him describes meeting a KPNLF soldier prior to May, 1979, when the KPNLF did not exist until October of that year. Nonetheless, I'd rate this at the top of the list of Khmer Rouge survival stories for clarity and readability. The ending, when she finally gets on a plane for the US, is particularly satisfying. The book has a lot in common with Molyda Szymusiak's The Stones Cry Out, but is far more human and introspective, and it compares well with Loung Ung's First They Killed My Father, which has been criticized for its implausible portrayal of a peaceful Phnom Penh in 1975, when the city was actually under siege."
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