Landbridge - Life in Fragments

''A masterpiece to console and guide generations to come'' Alice Pung, author of Unpolished GemBorn in, and named after, Thailand''s Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung was - aged one - the last of 60,000 Cambodian refugees admitted to Canada, fleeing her homeland in the aftermath of Pol Pot''s brutal Khmer Rouge regime. In Canada, Y-Dang became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian refugee project - and, implicitly, the unknowable horrors of the place she had escaped.
In Landbridge, a family and personal memoir of astonishing power, Y-Dang grapples with a life lived in the shadow of pre-constructed narratives. She considers the transactional relationship between a host country and its refugees; she delves into the contradictions between ethnic, regional and national identities; and she writes to her young son Kai with the promise that this family legacy is passed down with love at its core.

Written in fragmentary chapters, each with the vivid light of a single candle in a pitch-black room, Landbridge is a courageous piece of life writing, the story of a family, and a bold, ground-breaking intervention in the way trauma and migration are told.<>

Product details

• Authors: Y-Dang Troeung
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.10.2024
• EAN: 9781802063295
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-329-5
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Canada, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Cambodia, Trauma & shock, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum