Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (1972)
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The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam EN
CambodiaDescription:
A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery at the age of twelve describes the horrors she experienced until she managed to escape and discusses her role as an activist for the young women whom she has rescued from the region's brothels.
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him EN
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A survivor of the Cambodian genocide recounts a childhood in Cambodia, where rudimentary labor camps filled with death and illness were the norm and modern technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer existed.
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The Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna EN
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One family's quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer Rouge Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family’s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country’s major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million citizens. Cartoonist Tian Veasna was born just three days after the Khmer Rouge take... continue
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Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor EN
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Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am," says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he tells the gripping and frequently terrifying story of his term in the hell created by the communist Khmer Rouge. Like Dith Pran, the Cambodian doctor and interpreter whom Ngor played in an Oscar-winning performance in The Killing Fields, Ngor lived through the atrocities that the 1984 film portrayed. Like Pran, too, Ngor was a doctor by profession, and he experienced firsthand his country's wretc... continue
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À l'ombre des arbres millénaires by Vaddey Ratner FR
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Descendante du roi Sisowath qui a régné sur le Cambodge de 1904 à 1927, Vaddey Ratner a enduré le terrible régime khmer rouge avant de s'enfuir aux États-Unis. À l'ombre des arbres millénaires est un best-seller du New York Times et est en cours de traduction dans dix-neuf pays.
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Slow Noodles : A Recipe for Rebuilding a Lost Civilization by Chantha Nguon EN
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A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. With over 20 Khmer recipes included, Slow Noodles will resonate with readers who loved the food and emotional truth of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart, and it has the staying power of Loung Ung's First They Killed My Father. "I've never read a book that made me weep, wince, laugh out loud, and rejoice like Slow Noodles. In Chantha Nguon's harrowing, wise, and fiercely feminist memo... continue
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The Killing Fields of Cambodia by Sokphal Din EN
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'The Killing Fields of Cambodia' is a tale of survival through generosity, resourcefulness, and the strength of family. Harrowing, yet always hopeful, Sokphal's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.
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A Cambodian Prison Portrait. One Year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21 by Vann Nath EN
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Account of an artist's experiences in prison during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
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Monkey: The Journey To The West by Wu Cheng-en EN
ChinaDescription:
Immensely popular in the Far East, combines elements of the of picaresque novel with folk epic in a mix of satire, allegory, and history in which Monkey encounters major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.