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In The Shadow Of The Banyan
Vaddey Ratner
Simon & Schuster
August 2012
On Sale: July 31, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 1451657706
EAN: 9781451657708
Kindle: B0064CMKNS
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life
Told from the tender perspective of a young girl who
comes of age amid the Cambodian killing fields, this searing
first novel—based on the author’s personal story—has been
hailed by Little Bee author Chris Cleave as “a
masterpiece…utterly heartbreaking and impossibly
beautiful.” 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 she endures the deaths of family members,
starvation, and brutal forced labor, Raami clings to the
only remaining vestige of 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 testament to the
transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought
tale of human resilience.
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