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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.36 — 54,476 ratings — published 2000
In the Shadow of the Banyan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 207 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,066 ratings — published 2012
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,041 ratings — published 2000
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,791 ratings — published 2005
The Rent Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.27 — 59,527 ratings — published 2012
Survival in the Killing Fields (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,130 ratings — published 1975
Never Fall Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,407 ratings — published 2012
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,364 ratings — published 2011
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.25 — 706 ratings — published 1986
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)
by (shelved 47 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,600 ratings — published 2005
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,271 ratings — published 2024
Stay Alive, My Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,226 ratings — published 1987
Music of the Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,242 ratings — published 2017
The Disappeared (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,793 ratings — published 2009
Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.81 — 476 ratings — published 1999
The Gate (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,207 ratings — published 2001
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,609 ratings — published 2000
Afterparties (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,855 ratings — published 2021
Dogs at the Perimeter (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,655 ratings — published 2011
Temple of a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,443 ratings — published 2013
The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.15 — 809 ratings — published 2005
A History of Cambodia (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.77 — 331 ratings — published 1983
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon & the Destruction of Cambodia (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.23 — 374 ratings — published 1979
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.61 — 456 ratings — published 1996
Year of the Rabbit (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,483 ratings — published 2020
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.93 — 608 ratings — published 1951
Hun Sen’s Cambodia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.28 — 373 ratings — published 2014
Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.72 — 343 ratings — published 1992
The King's Last Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.75 — 445 ratings — published 2007
The Clay Marble (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,022 ratings — published 1991
River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,113 ratings — published 1995
The Elimination: A survivor confronts the chief of the Khmer Rouge Death Camps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.13 — 577 ratings — published 2012
The Map of Lost Memories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.32 — 2,371 ratings — published 2012
Cambodia: Year Zero (English and French Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.73 — 202 ratings — published 1977
Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.79 — 323 ratings — published 1998
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.90 — 193 ratings — published 2003
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.97 — 511 ratings — published 1997
To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,184 ratings — published 1987
The Tragedy Of Cambodian History: Politics, War and Revolution since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.12 — 80 ratings — published 1991
A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival (A Short History of Asia series)
by (shelved 14 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.85 — 248 ratings — published 2006
Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.21 — 722 ratings — published 2012
Unpolished Gem (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,795 ratings — published 2006
A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree (Inspector Singh Investigates #4)
by (shelved 13 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,063 ratings — published 2011
Ma and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,501 ratings — published 2022
Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide (National Geographic-memoirs)
by (shelved 12 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.91 — 778 ratings — published 2009
Children of the River (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,997 ratings — published 1989
A Woman of Angkor (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cambodia)
avg rating 3.77 — 262 ratings — published 2013
The Killing Fields (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.09 — 851 ratings — published 1984
Cambodia, 1975-1982 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.00 — 53 ratings — published 1983
Landbridge: life in fragments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cambodia)
avg rating 4.49 — 513 ratings — published
“Whatever their DNA contribution to the region, the Brahmins did bring
with them from India three crucial gifts that proved irresistible right across
the region: Sanskrit, the art of writing and the stories of the great Indian
epics.
No Indian import had a deeper or more long-lasting impact than the
deeds of the heroes of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. From the fifth
century, right on through to the dance and shadow puppetry of the present
day, these would remain a major feature in the art and culture of South-east
Asia.26 In time, even the landscape of South-east Asia began to be renamed
under the influence of the great epics and the stories of their respective
heroes, the Pandava brothers and Lord Rama.
The earliest inscription in Khmer territories dating from the fifth century
records that a ruler in what is now Laos took the Indic name Devanika and
the grandiose Sanskrit title Maharajadhiraja, ‘King of Kings’. This
happened during a ceremony when the King installed an image of Shiva
under the lingam-shaped mountain that towered over his capital of
Champasak. There he consecrated a tank which he named Kurukshetra,
after the plain to the north of Delhi where the great battle of the
Mahabharata was fought”
― The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
with them from India three crucial gifts that proved irresistible right across
the region: Sanskrit, the art of writing and the stories of the great Indian
epics.
No Indian import had a deeper or more long-lasting impact than the
deeds of the heroes of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. From the fifth
century, right on through to the dance and shadow puppetry of the present
day, these would remain a major feature in the art and culture of South-east
Asia.26 In time, even the landscape of South-east Asia began to be renamed
under the influence of the great epics and the stories of their respective
heroes, the Pandava brothers and Lord Rama.
The earliest inscription in Khmer territories dating from the fifth century
records that a ruler in what is now Laos took the Indic name Devanika and
the grandiose Sanskrit title Maharajadhiraja, ‘King of Kings’. This
happened during a ceremony when the King installed an image of Shiva
under the lingam-shaped mountain that towered over his capital of
Champasak. There he consecrated a tank which he named Kurukshetra,
after the plain to the north of Delhi where the great battle of the
Mahabharata was fought”
― The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
“When Angkorian society began, Paris and London were not much more than elaborate villages. Europe was crawling with barbarians, and here were the Khmer engineering sophisticated irrigation systems and constructing the biggest temple in the world.”
― The Map of Lost Memories
― The Map of Lost Memories
