Cambodia


First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
In the Shadow of the Banyan
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
The Rent Collector
Survival in the Killing Fields
Never Fall Down
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.)
Stay Alive, My Son
Music of the Ghosts
The Disappeared
The Gate
Carrying Cambodia by Hans KempSacred Skin by Tom VaterBikes of Burden by Hans KempChina by Tom  CarterVietnam Zippos by Sherry Buchanan
Best Asia Photography Books
30 books — 23 voters

The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. BorosonA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićGulab by Rohith S. KatbamnaThe Girl with No Face by M.H. BorosonA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best Asian Protagonist
178 books — 40 voters
The Steampowered Globe by Rosemary LimThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiThe Ayam Curtain by J.Y.  YangAlexander's Infinity by Lidija StankovikjThe Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
Speculative Fiction of Southeast Asia
91 books — 40 voters

Sydney Schanberg
When he talks about life under the Khmer Rouge, he uses phrases very unlike him—“true hell,” “more than insane,” “below zero.
Sydney Schanberg

Craig  Stone
Cambodian dust whipped up in the wind and stuck to my clothes like clay. I put a hand between my face and the sun and blinked Phnom Penn dust from my tired eyes. One idea, drink, beamed light in all directions across my dark consciousness. A slim lady walked toward me with a big smile and a bigger head. Her left hand rested on her waggling hips and her right hand rose above her head, limp-wristed, like she’d just thrown a winning ball toward a basket and was leaving her hand in the shot position ...more
Craig Stone, Life Knocks

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