One woman's heart-breaking, life-affirming memoir of loss,
survival, bearing witness and a legacy of love 'Landbridge has
forever altered what I know, how I love, and what I hope' Madeleine
Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing 'A masterpiece to
console and guide generations to come' Alice Pung, author of
Unpolished Gem Born in, and named after, Thailand's Khao-I-Dang
refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung was - aged one - the last of 60,000
Cambodian refugees admitted to Canada, fleeing her homeland in the
aftermath of Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge regime. In Canada, Y-Dang
became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian
refugee project - and, implicitly, the unknowable horrors of the
place she had escaped. In Landbridge, a family and personal memoir
of astonishing power, Y-Dang grapples with a life lived in the
shadow of pre-constructed narratives. She considers the
transactional relationship between a host country and its refugees;
she delves into the contradictions between ethnic, regional and
national identities; and she writes to her young son Kai with the
promise that this family legacy is passed down with love at its
core. Written in fragmentary chapters, each with the vivid light of
a single candle in a pitch-black room, Landbridge is a courageous
piece of life writing, the story of a family, and a bold,
ground-breaking intervention in the way trauma and migration are
told.
General
| Imprint: |
Allen Lane
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Y-Dang Troeung
|
| Dimensions: |
204 x 132 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-64800-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-241-64800-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780241648001 |
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