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Alive in the Killing Fields

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Alive in the Killing Fields
AuthorNawuth Keat and Martha E. Kendall
Book typeMemoir
First published2009
Original languageEnglish
PublisherNational Geographic
SubjectsLiterature & Storytelling; History & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora
Creator pagesMartha E. Kendall, Nawuth Keat

Alive in the Killing Fields is a memoir by Nawuth Keat and Martha E. Kendall, first published in 2009. (Wikipedia)

Description

This memoir recounts Nawuth Keat’s experiences as a child during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. After losing family members, enduring forced labor, hunger, violence and displacement, he escapes through Thailand and eventually immigrates to the United States. (Wikipedia)

Publication and editions

The book was published on October 13, 2009, and is 128 pages long. The listed intended age range is 12 and up. (Wikipedia; Penguin Random House)

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