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'Stay a live, myson. Stay a Iive to escape. Escape to stayalive
It is April 1975. One moment Pin Yathay is a successful engineer living in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. The next he and his family are being herded out of the city on their way to the Khmer Rouge's ki II i ng fields, where more than two millión Cambodians would be slaughtered over the next three years.
Treated far worse than peasant slaves, battling against starvation, disease and murderous captors, Yathay's family are dying around him while he watches helplessly. Then he and his wife make a desperate bid for freedom, but have to make the heartbreaking decision toleave their ailingson behind.
That Yathay has lived to teli this searing story is witness to his extraordinary courage and will to survive. It is a harrowing, gripping tale of struggle and endurance, as he escapes, only to be recaptured, before finally reaching safety in Thailand - alone.
'Intelligently and vividly told will deservedly attract...
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Fülszöveg
'Stay a live, myson. Stay a Iive to escape. Escape to stayalive
It is April 1975. One moment Pin Yathay is a successful engineer living in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. The next he and his family are being herded out of the city on their way to the Khmer Rouge's ki II i ng fields, where more than two millión Cambodians would be slaughtered over the next three years.
Treated far worse than peasant slaves, battling against starvation, disease and murderous captors, Yathay's family are dying around him while he watches helplessly. Then he and his wife make a desperate bid for freedom, but have to make the heartbreaking decision toleave their ailingson behind.
That Yathay has lived to teli this searing story is witness to his extraordinary courage and will to survive. It is a harrowing, gripping tale of struggle and endurance, as he escapes, only to be recaptured, before finally reaching safety in Thailand - alone.
'Intelligently and vividly told will deservedly attract superlatives, tears, and alsó anger' time out
'A horrifying, moving account' sunctay ejípress
'Grim, lucid, level-toned, scrupulously factval' daily telegraph
'Immensely readable, chilling and highly literate a testimony to the humán spirit' weekend australian
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