To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Escape Cambodia's Khmer Rouge - Softcover

Denise Affonco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906702071 ISBN 13: 9781906702076

Publisher: Reportage Press, 2009

Synopsis

To the End of Hell One of the most powerful memoirs of persecution ever written. Full description

About this title

Review:

'The sober and moving retelling of a nightmare survived' --The Economist

'Vivid and detailed' --The New York Times Review of Books

'A number of survivors of the Khmer Rouge have recorded their experience in memoirs. Affonco has written one of the best' --The Sunday Times

About the Author:

As Denise Affonço herself writes - I m a pure product of colonialism, a Eurasian, born in Phnom Penh in November 1944, to a French father and a Vietnamese mother. When the Khmer Rouge seized power in April 1975 her peaceful life was torn apart. She was deported with her husband, a communist idealist, and their two children to the countryside. In 1979, four hellish years were brought to an end when the Vietnamese invaded. She and son her son Jean-Jacques survived. Today, she is remarried and lives in Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Reportage Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1906702071
• ISBN 13: 9781906702076
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 232