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Chargement... When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge (édition 2001)par Chanrithy Him (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreWhen Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge : A Memoir par Chanrithy Him
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Thy and her family lives in Phnom Penh when the removed prince came back from China and instituted the martial Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodia). The city of 2 million was evacuated. The soldiers cruelly taunted the evacuees struggling on the road out of town, and looked for those who were educated, looking for those with eyeglasses and soft hands, as these were especially hated, for some reason. Becoming slaves in workcamps, digging irrigation ditches, sowing rice and vegetables in Fields, they were denied sufficient food and spied on by teenage informers. From 1975 to 1979, one quarter of the country's population died from torture and execution and starvation. Despite the horrific circumstances, almost half of Thy's family manages to survive. This book makes you reevaluate your life. When Broken Glass Floats🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒 By Chanrithy Him 2000 This memoir begins before the rise of the Khymer Regime, when the US government and China government both played significant roles in the Khymer regime, before the beginning of the genocide. When Khymer Rouge took control of Phnon Phen on April 17, 1975, they evacuated or killed entire cities, forcing those that could escape, into the countryside. "Night stretches into day. The revolution of the train wheels on the track sing me to sleep, then I wake to rays of sunlight that flirt through the cracks of the sliding door, telling me that time has passed, even if my own world has stopped, brought to a standstill in this freight car." As a young girl, seeing and experiencing the execution of all people deemed intelligent, teachers, political and church leaders,doctors. Then beginning to kill anyone at random for any reason .....seeing pregnant women executed, children's head blown off.....these were everyday occurrences. Being seperated from your family, eating plant roots and mice for survival, suffering sickness and disease with no medical help.....all to fulfill Pol Pot dream of a land with no western influence.... "Than is quiet, but we can feel remorse in his silence. Tonight has brought us brief joy, then grief. Agony at the realization that the Khmer Rouge have shaped us, made our tempers brittle and our hunger sharp. Led us to the point where we could be as cruel to one another as they are to us." Thy suffered, her heart broke watching the brutal reality, working in extreme conditions with little nutrition or clothing....watching those close to her and her family suffer, fall ill or die. They broke her heart but hardened her resolve and determination to make it through. It made Thy a remarkable women of strength, compassion and emotionally integrity. To live through this horror is truly a phenomenon but to be able to tell the story, live through it again to put it on paper is truly inspiring. Highly recommended.....as a personal memoir and one that will inspire you to always rise above.
Him seems to strain to relate the immediacy of a time so long ago. She also tries to impose an adult's logic and values on a world that, to a child, must have seemed impossible, chaotic. Prix et récompenses
In this mesmerizing story, finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. 15 b/w photographs. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)959.6042092History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia Cambodia 1949- 1970-1993Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Confessional: Despite the horrors Him relates in When Broken Glass Floats, there was a fascinating component of describing cultural superstitions. When Him's brother is dying it was believed he urinated on someone's grave and that is why, during the worst of his illness, he could not speak or relieve himself. ( )