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A Daughter Of Cambodia Reunites With The Sister She Left Behind
HarperCollins
April 2006
On Sale: March 30, 2006
Featuring: Loung Ung
320 pages
ISBN: 0060733950
EAN: 9780060733957
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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.
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