{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-the-khmer-rouge","title":"In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge: A Child Survivor’s Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForthcoming\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLim Muy Lang\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-renderer-start-pos=\"1\"\u003eForty-five years have passed since the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in 1979. Even so, the misery, death and destruction wrought in the name of revolution on a terrified population during the 1970s are still remembered. Now, a new voice is given to these memories in this compelling memoir written clearly and with unwavering honesty by a child survivor of the catastrophe that engulfed Cambodia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuy Lang's memoir begins by recalling a gentle life enjoyed by a young girl and her Sino-Cambodian family in Phnom Penh. With the fall of the city to the Khmer Rouge and its brutal emptying, the country descended into a utopian hell in which fantasist economic ideas were enforced with deadly, revolutionary fervour. Within three years, Muy Lang was completely alone; tragically, the seven other members of her family were all dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is more than an account of how the author survived nearly four years of starvation, sickness, brutality, torture and threatened death in the Cambodian countryside and how ultimately she escaped to Thailand – but only after an earlier escape ended when Thai troops drove refugees back into Cambodia. Muy Lang was amongst the first group of refugees to navigate a treacherous descent from the border through the landmine-infested Dângrêk Mountains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe memoir pays tribute to her immediate family and other war victims who shared their stories with Muy Lang, preserving their memories with care and reverence. It offers future generations a personal reflection on themes such as displacement, loss of cultural identity, hope, and resilience in the face of unimaginable circumstances. The result is a rare treasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge\u003c\/em\u003e is not the only account of Cambodia's darkest years; there are many. But it is undoubtedly one of the finest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-renderer-start-pos=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Among the memoirs of survivors of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge period that have appeared since the 1980s, In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge is a relative latecomer. In my view, it has been well worth waiting for, and it’s one of the best we have.”\u003c\/em\u003e– David Chandler, Monash University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-renderer-start-pos=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLim Muy Lang\u003c\/strong\u003e survived the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia as a child. She arrived in Australia in 1980 as an orphaned refugee and has lived there since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-renderer-start-pos=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Year: 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e288 pp, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e229 x 152mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24 colour images, 2 maps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-981-325-304-9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43763833372738,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/IntheShadowoftheKhmerRougeCvr_4adjustedsketch_030326.png?v=1779156351","url":"https:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-the-khmer-rouge","provider":"NUS Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}