Bibliograph

In the shadow of the banyan, Vaddey Ratner

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Label

In the shadow of the banyan, Vaddey Ratner

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

In the shadow of the banyan

Oclc number

800721954

Responsibility statement

Vaddey Ratner

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print reveiwers' choice

Summary

Set in Khmer Rouge-era Cambodia, this story follows seven-year-old Raami and her family as civil war forces them from their beloved home in Phnom Penh. With starvation, labor camps, and death now part of her everyday life, Raami finds comfort only in the beauty and hope of her father's mythical tales and poems

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