![]() ![]() ![]() Maps, useful ‘tips’ for survival and statistics divide the chapters: from these we learn that the route to Thailand is long and treacherous, that you can trade one bar of soap for two kilograms of rice, that nearly a third of the country’s population died in four years. Along the way, family members die or are ‘disappeared’. In his first graphic novel French-Cambodian illustrator and writer Tian Veasna, born in Cambodia just days after the Khmer Rouge seized power over the country in 1975, tells the story of his family’s struggle to escape, tracing their evacuation from Phnom Penh, through their forced relocation to labour camps, to their desperate attempts to reach a refugee camp on the border of Thailand. Tian Veasna’s Year of the Rabbit is a gripping tale of fleeing the Khmer Rouge ![]()
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