Historical novel set mainly in Dublin / IRELAND
Survival in the Killing Fields
Location(s): Cambodia
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): 1970s
Haing Ngor survived the labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. This is his life under the Khmer Rouge, an evocative and heart rending book about the descent of his country into hell. War slaves, execution squads, brutality beyond measure, squalor, starvation, disease. Having survived the the Killing Fields he moved to America, where he championed the plight of Cambodian refugees, only to be killed by a street gang in 1996.
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