Golden bones
Subtitle: an extraordinary journey from hell in Cambodia to a new life in America
By: Sichan Siv
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780061340680
Subjects: United Nations. Economic and Social Council; United Nations; United States. White House Office of Public Liaison; United States. Mission to the United Nations; Presidents; Immigrants; United States; Cambodian Americans; Officials and employees; Ambassadors; Staff; Biography; History
Description: Young Sichan Siv was targeted by the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide because he was a university graduate. His mother told him to run and "never give up hope!" Captured and put to work in a slave labor camp, Siv knew it was only a matter of time before he would be worked to death--or killed outright. After a daring escape and a desperate run for freedom through the jungle, Siv finally came upon a farmer who said, "Welcome to Thailand." He spent months teaching English in a refugee camp while regaining his strength, and was eventually allowed entry into the United States, where he kept striving. Eventually rising to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Siv returned with deep emotion to the killing fields of Cambodia in 1992 as a senior representative of the U.S. government.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: First episode: Cambodia; title: Part I: Dreams and hopes, 1948-1970; title: Pochentong; title: Paradise lost; title: Angkor; title: Four B's; title: The Sixties; title: The moon; title: Part II: War and peace, 1970-1976; title: Life under the sword; title: Caring and sharing; title: Year of the bloody peace; title: Friday the thirteenth; title: Second episode: America; title: Part III: Freedom and survival; title: New England; title: New York; title: Texas; title: Part IV: On behalf of the president; title: 41 and 41; title: The White House; title: Americans first; title: Return to Cambodia; title: Part V: On behalf of the United States; title: The principles; title: The good, the bad, the ugly; title: The ambassadors; title: The caravan; title: Two thousand six.