Lucky Child

2010-06-30 History

Author : Loung Ung
Release : 2010-06-30
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 513/5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis Lucky Child by : Loung Ung

Download or read book Lucky Child written by Loung Ung. This book was released on 2010-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.

A Lucky Child

2010-10-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Thomas Buergenthal
Release : 2010-10-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 844/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis A Lucky Child by : Thomas Buergenthal

Download or read book A Lucky Child written by Thomas Buergenthal. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide. Aged ten Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving the Ghetto of Kielce and two labour camps, and was soon separated from his parents. Using his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck, he managed to survive until he was liberated from Sachsenhausen in 1945. After experiencing the turmoil of Europe's post-war years - from the Battle of Berlin, to a Jewish orphanage in Poland - Buergenthal went to America in the 1950s at the age of seventeen. He eventually became one of the world's leading experts on international law and human rights. His story of survival and his determination to use law and justice to prevent further genocide is an epic and inspirational journey through twentieth century history. His book is both a special historical document and a great literary achievement, comparable only to Primo Levi's masterpieces.

What Makes a Child Lucky: A Novel

2008-10-17 Fiction

Author : Gioia Timpanelli
Release : 2008-10-17
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 095/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis What Makes a Child Lucky: A Novel by : Gioia Timpanelli

Download or read book What Makes a Child Lucky: A Novel written by Gioia Timpanelli. This book was released on 2008-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous story of danger and survival. In a timeless moment in rural Sicily, a boy experiences the brutal killing of his best friend and is kidnapped by the murderers. No child should have to know evil so intimately, and yet once he does, what will save him?His salvation lies in the cycles of the seasons, the sturdy earth and its gifts of lentils and wild asparagus in a time of starvation, the animal sense that enables one to anticipate the whims and impulses of others, and, most important, familiarity with the Ancient Grandmother, who knows the entire play of good and evil. If he can trust her—the gang's cook, a fierce woman of great practical wisdom and humanity—he will escape the grip of perpetual violence. Or so we learn from the beguiling old couple who narrate this story.Uniting the most ancient forms of storytelling with a modern sensibility, Gioia Timpanelli's work is a national treasure—a joy to read, clear and resonant and satisfying.

The Lucky Child

2010 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Marianne Apostolides
Release : 2010
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 470/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The Lucky Child by : Marianne Apostolides

Download or read book The Lucky Child written by Marianne Apostolides. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we construct the story of ourselves and our countries? How do we know our histories, our memories, our identities? These are the questions that compelled Marianne Apostolides to ask her father about his childhood in wartime Greece. Her probing unleashed a torrent of stories he'd kept hidden, even from himself Ñ stories about honour, bravery, vengeance and betrayal. The Lucky Child tells this tale with honesty and ambiguity. It is a novel that resonates with a deeper 'truth': the truth of our universal need to question and engage, to create our own meaning through shared story.

Lucky Boy

2017 Fiction

Author : Shanthi Sekaran
Release : 2017
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 241/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Lucky Boy by : Shanthi Sekaran

Download or read book Lucky Boy written by Shanthi Sekaran. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two mothers are bound together by their love for one boy.

Popular eBooks

Lucky Child

A Lucky Child

What Makes a Child Lucky: A Novel

The Lucky Child

Lucky Boy

You may also like...