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To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge
"To be permanently hungry and to watch your little eight-year-old girl slowly dying . . . is an unbearable torment."
A French citizen, Denise Affonco, was brought up in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, she was deported with her family to the countryside, where they endured four years of hard labor, famine, sickness, and death. Aff
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Published
April 1st 2009
by Reportage Press
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I hesitate to call this book a story of survival, allthough that's what it obviously is. My hesitation comes from the feeling that this woman just got lucky or blessed, her survival didn't really have anything to do with her being especially smart or talented somehow. But I suppose most survivors would describe themselves in a similar way, which really just goes to show how mad and unpredictable the world is. Some get shot in the head, others starve to death and some live to tell the story. And ...more
This is an extremely well-crafted account of survival during Kampuchea’s Pol Pot Regime. While often painful to read, it represents some of the best memoir writing on this particular place and time and offers a somewhat atypical point of view because the author is not Cambodian.
Denise Affonço was born in Phnom Penh of a French-Indian father and a Vietnamese mother. Well-educated and fluent in French, English and Vietnamese (she learned Khmer during the Khmer Rouge years), she describ...more
Denise Affonço was born in Phnom Penh of a French-Indian father and a Vietnamese mother. Well-educated and fluent in French, English and Vietnamese (she learned Khmer during the Khmer Rouge years), she describ...more
reviewed at : Mama Kucing Books : To The End Of Hell by Denise Affonco
A very sad book. How war turns human into beasts
A very sad book. How war turns human into beasts
Hyi helvetti että tuli paha olo tätä lukiesa. Käsittämätöntä mitä ihmiset joutuvat kokemaan ja kestämään ja vielä käsittämättömämpää ettei ketään aseteta vastuuseen.
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1970s
Very haunting and thought-provoking memoir on the topic of one of the many darker periods in recent modern history.
It was a great book... and it graphically narrates the pain and hardship that a whole country had to endure. It captivates the reader from the beginning and it provides an extremely good overlook on the abominations humans are capable of...
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