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A cloak of good fortune : a Cambodian boy's journey from paradise through the kingdom of terror / Sieu Sean Do.
Van Pelt Library DS554.83.D6 A3 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Do, Sieu Sean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Do, Sieu Sean--Childhood and youth.
- Do, Sieu Sean.
- Do, Sieu Sean--Family.
- Genocide survivors--Cambodia--Biography.
- Genocide survivors.
- Cambodia--History--1953-1975.
- Cambodia.
- Cambodia--History--1975-1979.
- Cambodia--Politics and government--1975-1979.
- Cambodia--Social conditions--20th century.
- Families.
- Politics and government.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 285 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Hibiscus Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- A Cloak of Good Fortune traces one Cambodian child's coming of age from the idyllic, peaceful years of childhood in rural Cambodia through his family's forced exile by the Khmer Rouge. Sieu Sean Do was born in 1963 and grew up in Kampong Speu, a rural town about fifty kilometres outside Phnom Penh. The midwife declared Sieu Sean a rare family blessing because he was born inside the amniotic sac, and in Khmer folklore, the sac is believed to be a "cloak of good fortune" that brings good luck. No one knew then how much luck the family would ultimately need.
- ISBN:
- 9781733181907 (paperback)
- 1733181903 (paperback)
- OCLC:
- 1138467015
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