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When Broken Glass Floats
by Chanrithy Him
Four years under the Khmer Rouge. Her family disappears one by one.
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you want to understand the Khmer Rouge years through the granular texture of a child's daily survival
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Him was ten when the Khmer Rouge evacuated Phnom Penh. Over the next four years she watched her father, her sister, her brother, and her mother die — each one taken by a different mechanism of the regime. She survived by being useful, by being small, by luck. This memoir reconstructs those years with a child's eye for specific detail — the color of the sky, the smell of the work camps, the sound of her father's last words. The most intimate Cambodian dispatch on this shelf. Essential companion to First They Killed My Father.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Cambodia • Southeast Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Cambodian author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
