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The Death and Life of Dith Pran

por Sydney H. Schanberg

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The US journalist's account of his colleague's struggle to survive the Cambodian genocide--the basis for the Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields.   On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers seized Phnom Penh--the capital of Cambodia--and began a brutal genocide that left millions dead. Dith Pran, a Cambodian working as an assistant to American reporter Sydney H. Schanberg, was a witness to these events. While his employer managed to escape across the border, Dith Pran fled into the Cambodian countryside--and into the heart of the massacre.   The basis for the acclaimed movie The Killing Fields, this is the compelling account of the days before the fall of Phnom Penh. It's the story of one man's struggle for survival in a country that had become a death camp for millions of its citizens--and another man's failed efforts to keep his friend and colleague safe. Written within a year of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, it is a work of both historical and literary significance.   Sydney H. Schanberg contributed a moving new foreword to this first eBook edition.… (más)
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"The Death and Life of Dith Pran" and Schanberg's reporting helped introduce America to the Cambodian Genocide. Because of that, this book is of historical and literary significance. However, being published in a newspaper just a year after the Cambodian Genocide ended, there was not much time for Schanberg or anyone else to do much research into the matter. As such, this book is mostly about Schanberg's despondency after losing his friend Dith Pran for four years. The book also covers what happened to Pran during the Genocide, albeit briefly and without much detail. The book is less than 80 pages.

Since being published, numerous memoirs and studies about the Cambodian Genocide have replaced the importance of "The Death and Life of Dith Pran." There is a wealth of new scholarly information, journalism, and biography from which readers can pull information from besides this book. Nevertheless, "The Death and Life of Dith Pran" was important from a cultural perspective. ( )
  mvblair | Aug 9, 2020 |
This is the book version of the long article Schanberg wrote about his colleague and friend Dith Pran after Dith's escape from Cambodia. It is the basis for The Killing Fields, but is interesting in its own right as a brief memoir that lightly touches upon the agony of having privilege in circumstances where your loved ones do not. Schanberg's prose is spare and to the point; he's no great stylist, but the simplicity of the writing serves to convey immediacy and urgency. I recommend reading this first, watching the film, then watching or reading Gray's Swimming to Cambodia. ( )
  OshoOsho | Mar 30, 2013 |
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The US journalist's account of his colleague's struggle to survive the Cambodian genocide--the basis for the Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields.   On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers seized Phnom Penh--the capital of Cambodia--and began a brutal genocide that left millions dead. Dith Pran, a Cambodian working as an assistant to American reporter Sydney H. Schanberg, was a witness to these events. While his employer managed to escape across the border, Dith Pran fled into the Cambodian countryside--and into the heart of the massacre.   The basis for the acclaimed movie The Killing Fields, this is the compelling account of the days before the fall of Phnom Penh. It's the story of one man's struggle for survival in a country that had become a death camp for millions of its citizens--and another man's failed efforts to keep his friend and colleague safe. Written within a year of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, it is a work of both historical and literary significance.   Sydney H. Schanberg contributed a moving new foreword to this first eBook edition.

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