Escaping the Khmer Rouge
Subtitle: a Cambodian memoir
By: Chileng Pa ; with Carol Mortland.
Contributors: Mortland, Carol A. 1945-
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780786436729
Subjects: Pa, Chileng, -- 1950-2005; Political refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography; Political refugees -- United States -- Biography; Political atrocities -- Cambodia; Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Chileng Pa vividly recalls life under the Cambodian Communists. In April of 1977, Chileng was forced to watch as Communist guerillas brutally murdered his wife and two-year-old son. With nothing left for him in Prayap Chileng fled to Vietnam. In 1980, Chileng and his new family found their way to America"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: My good life; title: Love at first sight; title: Becoming an adult in a country at war; title: Serendipity and separation; title: Hope and heartbreak; title: "Liberation"; title: Bamboo grave; title: A poem for grandmother; title: Witness to death; title: The worst night of all; title: A fearful escape to Vietnam; title: A new life in Cambodia, Thailand, and America; title: An interruption to this story.