Cambodia


First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
In the Shadow of the Banyan
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
The Rent Collector
Survival in the Killing Fields
Never Fall Down
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Stay Alive, My Son
Music of the Ghosts
The Disappeared
Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
Loung Ung
As Pa speaks, I know he thinks someone in our family has stolen the rice. The story of the rat is not true and everyone knows it. Convinced that he realises it was me, I hide my eyes from him. Shame burns my hand like a hot iron branding me for all to see; Pa's favourite child stole from the family. As if to rescue me,Geak wakes up and her screams of hunger interrupt the incident. ...more
Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Sydney Schanberg
When he talks about life under the Khmer Rouge, he uses phrases very unlike him—“true hell,” “more than insane,” “below zero.
Sydney Schanberg

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