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Bamboo Promise: Prison Without Walls
Bamboo Promise: Prison Without Walls
Bamboo Promise: Prison Without Walls
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Cambodia is a country with beautiful temples and art, and steeped in the Buddhist religion. Despite this, the once-civilized society turned to violence and proceeded to destroy itself. People betrayed their parents, their children, and their friends. In the process, they extinguished everything that represented the truth and beauty of Cambodia.

How does an individual withstand such experiences and resume life after having fought for a single grain of rice and witnessed unbelievable cruelties, such as mothers crushing their babies, young children willing to kill for a morsel of food, and the entire decimation of normal urban life? Bamboo Promise is author Vicheara Houns story of her survival. This is the remarkable and intensely personal autobiography of a woman raised as the sheltered and privileged only child of a prominent Cambodian family. As a young bride, she and her entire family were swept up in the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Houn recounts how she adapted and survived in the harsh killing fields of the Khmer Rouge terrorists in this compelling narrative.

Although the author survived many horrors, Bamboo Promise is not a horror story. It is the story of the evolution of a human spirit as she endured a tumultuous upbringing and an unspeakable tragedy. The insights into life after Pol Pots defeat and Cambodias subjection by the Communist Vietnamese are particularly unique. Bamboo Promise is also a story of hope, as Houn found lasting happiness in the United States.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAbbott Press
Release dateNov 20, 2012
ISBN9781458206312
Bamboo Promise: Prison Without Walls
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Vicheara Houn

Vicheara Houn was born in Phnom-Penh, Cambodia, to a wealthy family that was politically and socially prominent. She lost her mother at a young age and suffered through starvation, illness, and the agony of losing her entire familyincluding her then husbandunder the Khmer Rouge regime. This book continues her account of battling post-traumatic stress disorder that she began in volume one of Bamboo Promise. She lives with her third husband and son in Arizona.

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