Now for a Cambodia book that really got me to say not much at all - what the hell can you say about the memoir of a guy who survived Pol Pot's insanity?
The title alone should be enough to provide that funny choking feeling in your throat - those are the words that his father said to him when they were separated during an enforced migration; and they are the words he said to his son as he left the boy with a friend of the family just before his attempt to escape the country on foot.
This book was hard enough to read; thankfully Mr Yathay did not include the gruesomeness that he might have.
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I agree, there weren't too many gruesome details which made the reading experience a really nice one. This is a book I would definitely recommend for a "Cambodian reading list" for it so clearly and chronologically details the lives of ordinary Cambodians under the Khmer Rouge. As memoirs go, it is nicely written and its aim seems to be to educate rather than to shock, unlike some of the more recent memoirs that have hit the book shelves all over.
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