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Told from the sensitive perspective of a young girl who comes old amid the Cambodian killing domains, this searing first novel - based on the author's personal story - has been hailed by Little Bee author Chris Cleave as "a masterpiece... utterly heartbreaking and impossibly beautiful." For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of child years commences with the footsteps of her father going back home in the early dawn hours taking information on the civil war that has confused the avenues of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and pressured exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the fatalities of members of the family, hunger, and brutal pressured labor, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of child years - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a weather of systematic assault where ram is sickness and justification for execution, Raami battles on her behalf improbable survival. Exhibiting the author's astonishing gift for vocabulary, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent ability of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of individuals resilience.
