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Surviving Year Zero: My Four Years Under the Khmer Rouge

By Sovannora Ieng; Greg Hill

Book information

Publisher
Five Mile Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781760065195, 9781760065201, 9781760063641
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5357890 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-05 08:21:12
Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction; BIO026000

Description

Surviving Year Zero is the story of one young man, yet it is the story of millions of people. It tells of how Sovannora Ieng lived through the genocide that tore at the heart of Cambodia in the 1970s. Sovannora survived in an environment where survival was barely possible. He and his family experienced starvation, backbreaking labour and constant surveillance. They learnt to be silent in a world where a casual remark could be turned into a sentence of death. Sovannora's experiences under the Khmer Rouge remind us of the terrible things that we humans have done to each other, and his eventual escape is a testament to his resilience and ingenuity in the face of constant danger. He told his story to Greg Hill, who wrote this compelling and even joyous account of survival against the odds.

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