Ebook {Epub PDF} In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner

Book Summary. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of .  · A Conversation with Vaddey Ratner. In the Shadow of the Banyan is a novel, but it is closely based on your family's experience in Cambodia during the genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge regime between and Why did you decide to write it as a novel rather than a memoir? Vaddey Ratner is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Her critically acclaimed bestselling debut novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan, was a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and has been translated into seventeen languages. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Cornell University, where she specialized in Southeast Asian history and literature/5(1K).

Home» Cambodia» Vaddey Ratner» In the Shadow of the Banyan. Vaddey Ratner: In the Shadow of the Banyan. Raami is seven years old at the beginning of this novel, clearly based on Ratner herself, when she was five. The Khmer Rouge are attacking Phnom Penh and the sound of shelling can be heard all too often. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner - review. Vaddey Ratner traces the reign of the Khmer Rouge to its demise in a mere pages, narrating the manifold tragedies that took place. Though Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan touches on the communist era, her story is more than that; it's about, in her words, "the human experience—our struggle to hang onto life, our desire to live, even in the most awful circumstances. In telling this story, it isn't my own life I wished others to take note of.

Vaddey Ratner: In the Shadow of the Banyan Raami is seven years old at the beginning of this novel, clearly based on Ratner herself, when she was five. The Khmer Rouge are attacking Phnom Penh and the sound of shelling can be heard all too often. Vaddey Ratner is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Her critically acclaimed bestselling debut novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan, was a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and has been translated into seventeen languages. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Cornell University, where she specialized in Southeast Asian history and literature. Book Summary. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital.