In the Shadow of the Banyan

from bookmagic

This coming of age story takes place during the rise of the Khmer Rouge, told through the eyes of seven year old Raami. Her happy like with her parents and baby sister come to an abrupt halt as the Khmer Rouge forces them to leave their home and take refuge in the countryside under the eyes of so...

from Donna828

I remember with horror the news reports of the mid-to-late-1970s genocide in the killing fields of Cambodia. It's bad enough to catch a chilling snippet of insanity on the evening news and quite another to read a detailed account as told through the eyes of a child. Seven-year-old Raami is living...

from mountie9

The Good Stuff Heartbreaking - this story will haunt you long after you have read it The prose is so exquisite and beautifully written, such talent for first time author It is hard for me to express how spectacular this book is, everything I want to say sounds trite when compared to the beauty of...

from brenzi

In this book, hope and change is not just an empty campaign promise. Hope and change are the difference between life and death. They keep it from being just another example of maudlin narrative that takes you down to the depths of deep despair, never to recover. Yes, there are heavy doses of hope...

from stretch

In the Shadow of the Banyan is a heartbreaking story of a minor royal Cambodian family caught up the disastrous social engineering of the Khmer Rogue in the mid 1970's. Based partially on the experiences of Ratner, herself being only five years old at the time when the Khmer Rogue came to power, ...