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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Ratner, Vaddey.     Subjects     Asian Americans -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ratner, Vaddey.       by title:      In the shadow of the...         MARC Display

In the shadow of the banyan [electronic resource] / Vaddey Ratner. by Ratner, Vaddey. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014. Subjects Asian Americans -- Fiction. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=9CA9BC26-358A-43D4-8946-264DC11E943C This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{9CA9BC26-358A-43D4-8946-264DC11E943C}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781451657722 (electronic bk.) 1451657722 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource Requests:  0 Summary:  You are about to read an extraordinary story, a PEN Hemingway Award finalist "rich with history, mythology, folklore, language and emotion." It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable horrors. It will reveal a gorgeously rich culture struggling to survive through a furtive bow, a hidden ankle bracelet, fragments of remembered poetry. It will ensure that the world never forgets the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in the Cambodian killing fields between 1975 and 1979, when an estimated two million people lost their lives. It will give you hope, and it will confirm the power of storytelling to lift us up and help us not only survive but transcend suffering, cruelty, and loss. For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours, bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as the Khmer Rouge attempts to strip the population of every shred of individual identity, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of her childhood--the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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