Chanrithy Him
When Broken Glass Floats
Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
"A gut-wrenching story, told with honesty, restraint, and dignity."—Ha Jin, author of Waiting, winner of the National Book Award
In this mesmerizing story, finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. 15 b/w photographs.
"A touching and illuminating human account ....should not be missed by anyone around the world."—Le Ly Hayslip, author of When Heaven And Earth Changed Places
Astonishing and heartbreaking.... Written in spare, visual prose that makes the world it describes tangible."—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
Intelligent and morally aware ....[Him] tells us what it was like to struggle to survive while others played out utopian dreams."—New York Times
In this breathtaking, luminous memoir, Chanrithy Him takes us into the chaotic world of the Khmer Rouge."—David Chandler, author of Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
[An] eloquent chronicle of survival, courage and perseverance."—William H. Sack, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Oregon Health Sciences University
Chanrithy Him, born in 1965, lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she works for the Khmer Adolescent Project, studying post-traumatic stress disorder among Cambodians.
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