The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea
Subtitle: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery
By: Vannak Anan Prum ; as told to Ben & Jocelyn Pederick ; and translated by Lim Sophorn
Contributors: Pederick, Ben, author; Pederick, Jocelyn, author; Sophorn, Lim, translator
Edition: A Seven Stories Press first edition.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781609806026
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Plantation workers; Fishers; Corrupt practices; Slave labor; Fisheries; Slaves; Human trafficking; Biography; Tattoo artists
Other titles: Graphic memoir of modern slavery
Description: "Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to return him, but instead Vannak was hostage on the vessel for four years of hard labor. Vannak survived in large part by honing his ability to tattoo his shipmates--a skill he possessed despite never having been trained in art. After five years away, Vannak was finally reunited with his family. Vannak documented his ordeal in raw, colorful, detailed illustrations, first created because he believed that without them no one would believe his story. The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea is a testament to the lives of these many fishermen who are trapped on boats in the Indian Ocean"