Sense of Place Stars: Cambodia

Fiction and Nonfiction Titles Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • Finding Moon
    Author: Hillerman, Tony
    Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24 ISBN: 0060177721 Date: 1995
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    The author of such acclaimed Navajo mysteries as Skinwalkers and Talking God brings his unique gift for recreating an exotic culture and a distant place to bear on a story set in Southeast Asia, as a newspaperman searches a war-racked realm for his dead brother's child.
    Updated 6.9.05
  • The Reckoning
    Author: Long, Jeff
    Publisher: Atria $ 25 ISBN: 0743463005 Date: 2004
    While covering a search for the 30-year-old remains of a pilot in Cambodia, aphotojournalist discovers an eerie wasteland of ghostly "dawn people" and the plot takes off on a turbulent course toward a final, hair-raising conclusion. Updated 6.9.05

Nonfiction

  • The Gate
    Author: Bizot, Francois
    Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 037541293x Date: 2003
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    A literary and historical tour de force: one man's astonishing experience in a land of pristine beauty on the eve of one of the 20th century's most barbaric spectacles. Bizot was a scholar of Khmer pottery in rural Cambodia in 1971--the days leading inexorably to genocide. The Gate recounts the nightmare of his arrest and captivity on suspicion of being an American spy.
    Updated 2.28.03
  • Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
    Author: Short, Philip
    Publisher: Holt $ 30 ISBN: 0805066624 Date: 2005
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    A gripping and definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times. This powerful biography reveals that Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia were not a one-off aberration but instead grew out of a darkness of the soul common to all peoples.
    Updated 12.27.04
  • First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
    by Ung, Luong
    Publisher: harperCollins $ 23 ISBN: 0060193328 Date: 2000
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    From a childhood survivor of the brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of tragedy and spiritual triumph.
    Suggested Reading: Memoir Stars
  • Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia In America Reunites With the Sister She Left Behind
    Author: Ung, Loung
    Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060733942 Date: 2005
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    In this lyrical sequel to     First They Killed My Father, Ung describes her school years in Vermont as a Cambodian refugee and her sister Chou's struggle to survive in Cambodia.
    Suggested Reading: Memoir Stars | Adult Books for Teens
    Updated 2.21.05