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Gripping and powerful, Stay Alive, My Son is an unforgettable testament of cruelty, courage, sacrifice and survival as a young Cambodian must decide whether or not to abandon his sole surviving child in order to escape the sadistic purges of the Khmer Rouge. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a story about the survival of a man in one of the most derifying regimes in history. This tells of Pin Yathay's struggle against the ruthless Khmer Rouge. It explains how he lost his whole family to illness, execution, starvation, exhaustion and mere disappearance. It is amazing to realise that other countries are out under so much terror by a brainwashed minority. This book is an easy read, however is very difficult to come to terms with the scale of things. The year before Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge came to power, Cambodia had a population of almost 8 million; after five years in power, the population had been reduced to just over five and a half million people. I would recommend this to anybody interested in hitory, or who wants something to read. I will guarantee this will be very hard to put down.
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Words cannot describe the impact this book had on me. I have never been so moved by something I have read. It brings to life the unimaginable suffering inflicted by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in an honest compelling and easy to read style. It's hard to read, because it shows how easily evil can spread. But it is also an extremely inspiring book because it shows the remarkable endurance of the human spirit and the love between families which the khmer rouge couldn't destroy.
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This book is an inspiring story of survival in the most appalling circumstances. This is very much in the mode of those books by Loung Ung, Haing Ngor and Chanrithy Him. It is not a "I was there too" story.
There is a really dreadful incident while the author and a small group are attempting to escape to Thailand. The group breaks up, possibly having been spotted by a Khmer Rouge patrol. The author, his wife and another woman, continue on, and eventually they get split up in the jungle. Suddenly there is the realisation that the author is alone. I read on, gripped, expecting or hoping that that somehow they would meet again, but no they didn't. Sometime later he reflects some time later on what may have happened to his wife (possibly succumbed to starvation, captured by a patrol, eaten by an animal).
Buy it, and try and imagine how bad the Khmer Rouge really were.
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a must read
I remember watching the telly and seeing Khmer soldiers marching, it is such a shame that the World stood by and let this happen, I also spent 6mths in Cambodia,doing charity work... Read more
Published 19 months ago by trand
STAY ALIVE, MY SON
This is a heartbreaking personal story that makes you wonder at the amount of human suffering a person can survive. Read more
Published on 26 April 2010 by ROONEY
Amazing!
I bought this book whilst travelling in Cambodia and thought it was the most amazing survival story I had ever read! Truly brave and moving.
Published on 14 Dec 2009 by S. Else
Powerful account of life under the Khmer Rouge
This is the most amazing story of human endurance on the part of the author, and of human depravity on the part of the Khmer Rouge. Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2008 by DubaiReader
A brilliant read
I found this book was excellently written and very moving. The author has such a terrible time under the Khmer Rouge regime and then has to take the agonising decision that to... Read more
Published on 2 May 2004 by Nicola Arthur
Extremely moving
The horror of the Khmer Rouge is movingly portayed and shocks you to the very core in this account of the genocide in Cambodia. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 1999
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