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From the Land of Shadows

2015-10-16 Social Science
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Release : 2015-10-16
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis From the Land of Shadows by : Khatharya Um

Download or read book From the Land of Shadows written by Khatharya Um. This book was released on 2015-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand finding refuge in America. From the Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Drawing on more than 250 interviews with survivors across the United States as well as in France and Cambodia, Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions, totalitarianism, transnationalism, and memory works to illuminate the pathology of power as well as the impact of auto-genocide on individual and collective healing. Exploring the interstices of home and exile, forgetting and remembering, From the Land of Shadows follows the ways in which Cambodian individuals and communities seek to rebuild connections frayed by time, distance, and politics in the face of this injurious history.

Land of Shadows

2014-06-10 Fiction
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Release : 2014-06-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 359/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Land of Shadows by : Rachel Howzell Hall

Download or read book Land of Shadows written by Rachel Howzell Hall. This book was released on 2014-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles police department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a teenage girl and the unsolved murder of Lou's sister.

Land of Shadows

2011-09-05 Fiction
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Release : 2011-09-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 791/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Land of Shadows by : Stig Dalager

Download or read book Land of Shadows written by Stig Dalager. This book was released on 2011-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish American-Danish lawyer, Jon Baeksgaard, and his Israeli born fiancee Eve, who works in a real-estate firm on the 86th Floor of the South-Tower of the World Trade Center are amongst the 9/11victims caught in the conflagration. He tries to rescue her from the building, and the events following a murder case he is conducting for the defence of a Moslem client bring him and the co-workers of his small East village office into the midst of a tense political situation. The natural fear and anger in the wake of 9/11 give rise to prejudice and the threat of compounding injustice arising through the public outrage committed against New York city. The love between Jon and Eve is of central to the story, which eventually leads the reader to Jerusalem and Hebron.

Out of Shadows

2012-05-15 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2012-05-15
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis Out of Shadows by : Jason Wallace

Download or read book Out of Shadows written by Jason Wallace. This book was released on 2012-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Robert Jacklin comes face-to-face with bigotry, racism, and brutality when he is uprooted from England and moves to Zimbabwe with his family. Robert is enrolled in one of the country's most elite boys' boarding schools. Newly integrated, the school is a microcosm of the horrible problems faced by the struggling new country in the wake of a bloody civil war. The white boys want their old country back and torment the black Africans. Robert must make careful alliances. His decision to join the ranks of the more powerful white boys has a devastating effect on his conscience and emerging manhood.

From the Land of Shadows

2015-10-16 History
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Release : 2015-10-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis From the Land of Shadows by : Khatharya Um

Download or read book From the Land of Shadows written by Khatharya Um. This book was released on 2015-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand finding refuge in America. From the Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Drawing on more than 250 interviews with survivors across the United States as well as in France and Cambodia, Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions, totalitarianism, transnationalism, and memory works to illuminate the pathology of power as well as the impact of auto-genocide on individual and collective healing. Exploring the interstices of home and exile, forgetting and remembering, From the Land of Shadows follows the ways in which Cambodian individuals and communities seek to rebuild connections frayed by time, distance, and politics in the face of this injurious history.

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