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Golden bones : an extraordinary journey from hell in Cambodia to a new life in America / Sichan Siv.
Van Pelt Library E840.8.S549 A3 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siv, Sichan, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Siv, Sichan, 1948-.
- Siv, Sichan.
- United States. Mission to the United Nations.
- United Nations. Economic and Social Council.
- United States. White House Office of Public Liaison.
- Presidents--United States--Staff--Biography.
- Presidents.
- History.
- Cambodian Americans.
- United States.
- Cambodia.
- United States. White House Office of Public Liaison--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United Nations. Economic and Social Council--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United Nations.
- Ambassadors--United States--Biography.
- Ambassadors.
- United States. Mission to the United Nations--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Cambodian Americans--Biography.
- Immigrants--United States--Biography.
- Immigrants.
- Cambodia--History--1953-1975--Biography.
- Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, [2008]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Map of Cambodia xi
- Two Thousand Six 1
- Episode 1 Cambodia
- Part I Dreams and Hope, 1948-1970
- 1 Pochentong 7
- 2 Paradise Lost 14
- 3 Angkor 20
- 4 Four B's 27
- 5 The Sixties 36
- 6 The Moon 59
- Part II War and Peace, 1970-1976
- 7 Life Under the Sword 71
- 8 Caring and Sharing 83
- 9 Year of the Bloody Peace 95
- 10 Friday the Thirteenth 140
- Episode 2 America
- Part III Freedom and Survival
- 11 New England 169
- 12 New York 188
- 13 Texas 219
- Part IV On Behalf of the President
- 14 41 and 41 233
- 15 The White House 242
- 16 Americans First 250
- 17 Return to Cambodia 265
- Part V On Behalf of the United States
- 18 The Principles 279
- 19 The Good, the Bad, the Ugly 288
- 20 The Ambassadors 293
- 21 The Caravan 297
- 22 Two Thousand Six 303.
- ISBN:
- 9780061340680
- 0061340685
- OCLC:
- 156816507
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