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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind: Book 2 of 3: A Daughter of Cambodia

Door Loung Ung

Categorie
Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer
#417512-YA15
Titel
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind: Book 2 of 3: A Daughter of Cambodia
Auteur
Ung, Loung
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Harper Collins
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
0060733942
ISBN13
9780060733940
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
In this lyrical sequel to "First They Killed My Father," Ung describes her school years in Vermont as a Cambodian refugee and her sister Chou's struggle to survive in Cambodia.
When Loung Ung came to America in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee, she had already survived years of hunger, violence, and loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a story she told in her critically acclaimed bestseller, First They Killed My Father. Now, in Lucky Child, Ung writes of assimilation and, in alternating chapters, gives voice to a genocide survivor she left behind in rural Cambodia, her older sister Chou.
Loung was the lucky child, the sibling Eldest Brother chose to take with him to America. The youngest and the scrappiest, she was the one he believed had the best chance of making it. ... (Lees verder)Just two years apart, Chou and Loung had bonded deeply over the deaths of their parents and sisters. As they stood holding hands in their dusty village while the extended family gathered to say good-bye, they never imagined that fifteen years would pass before they would be reunited again.
With candor and enormous flair, Ung describes what it is like to survive in a new culture while surmounting dogged memories of genocide and the deep scars of war. Not only must she learn about Disney characters and Christmas trees to fit in with her classmates, she must also come to understand life in a nation of peace: that the Fourth of July fireworks are not bombs and that she doesn't have to hide food in her bed every night to make sure she has enough to eat. Her spunk, intelligence, and charisma win out, but Cambodia and Chou are always in her thoughts.
An accomplished activist and writer, Ung has now returned to Cambodia many times, and in this re-creation of Chou's life, she writes the story that so easily could have been hers. Both redemptive and searing, Lucky Child highlights the harsh realities of chance and circumstance and celebrates the indomitability of the human spirit.
Pagina's
267
Conditie
Goed — Date on upper pastedown; black permanent marker line on bottom cut.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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