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Running toward the guns : a memoir of escape from cambodia / Chanty Jong, Lee Ann Van Houten-Sauter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jong, Chanty, 1967- author.
- Van Houten-Sauter, Lee Ann, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--Pennsylvania--Biography.
- Refugees.
- Cambodian Americans--Pennsylvania--Biography.
- Cambodian Americans.
- Cambodia--History--1975-1979--Biography.
- Cambodia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, [2021]
- Summary:
- ""Running Toward the Guns is an autobiographical story and an accounting of Chanty Jong's personal inner self-healing journey that led to a successfully unexpected discovery. Jong survived the Cambodian genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-1979, witnessing the horrors of the killing fields, torture, starvation and much more. Her vivid narrative recounts the suffering under the Khmer Rouge, her perseverance to survive physically and emotionally and her perilous escape to America. Her memoir relives the traumatic memories of her experiences and traces her arduous personal transformation toward a life of inner peace through intensive meditation."-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-4113-7
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