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Survival in the Killing Fields
Survival in the Killing Fields is Haing Ngor's memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, written with Roger Warner and first published in 1987.[1][2] Ngor won an Academy Award for playing Dith Pran in the film The Killing Fields.[3][4]
About the book
The memoir tells how Ngor survived the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. It describes labor camps, starvation and disease, torture, execution squads and the breakup of families.[3][1] Its UK publisher calls the book a testament to the human spirit and a reminder of war's horrors, and notes a love that rose above the hardship.[3]
Publication and editions
Ngor wrote the memoir with the journalist Roger Warner. For a new edition in 2003, Warner wrote an epilogue on Ngor's last years. Ngor was shot dead outside his apartment in Los Angeles in 1996.[1][5] Macmillan first published the book in New York in 1987 as A Cambodian Odyssey, in 478 pages.[2] Basic Books issued an edition titled Survival in the Killing Fields in December 2003, in 528 pages.[1]
References 5
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Hachette Book Group, Survival in the Killing Fields (Basic Books, December 26, 2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 OCLN library catalog, A Cambodian odyssey
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Little, Brown, Survival in the Killing Fields (November 13, 2003)
- ↑ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The 57th Academy Awards
- ↑ The Spokesman-Review, Killing Fields Survivor Killed In U.S. (February 27, 1996)
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