Landbridge: Life in Fragments by Troeung, Y-Dang

Landbridge: Life in Fragments

In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia...
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Author: Y-Dang Troeung
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Language: English
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Landbridge: Life in Fragments by Troeung, Y-Dang

Landbridge: Life in Fragments

CHF 39.01

Landbridge: Life in Fragments

CHF 39.01
Author: Y-Dang Troeung
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that Canada agreed to admit. Their landing was widely documented in newspapers, with photographs of the Prime Minister shaking Troeung's father's hand and patting baby Y-Dang's head. Troeung became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian refugee project. She returns to this moment forty years later in her arresting memoir Landbridge, where she explores the tension between that public narrative of happy "arrival," and the multiple, often hidden truths of what happened to her family. In precise, beautiful prose, Troeung moves back and forth in time to tell stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide, about the lives of her grandparents and extended family, about her own childhood in the refugee camps and in rural Ontario, and eventually about her young son's illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. Throughout this brilliant and astonishing book, Troeung looks with bracing clarity at refugee existence and dares to imagine a better future, with love.

Author: Y-Dang Troeung
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
ISBN: 9781478031123

About the Author
Y-Dang Troeung (1979-2022) was Associate Professor of English Languages and Literatures at the University of British Columbia and author of Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia.

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