Lafreniere

Music Through/Dark Pa

By Bree Lafreniere
(University of Hawaii Press, Paperback, 9780824822668, 136pp.)

Publication Date: April 2000

Categories: Asia - Southeast Asia

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So begins the extraordinary story of one man's experience of Cambodia's holocaust during the 1970s. As Anne Frank did in her Diary, Daran Kravanh takes readers into the heart of a horrifying tragedy -- one that claimed the lives of his parents and seven siblings and as many as three million other Cambodians. Among those murdered were thousands of intellectuals and artists; as a musician, Daran was himself a target for execution, but it was his talent for playing the accordion that saved his life. Throughout the Khmer Rouge period, the accordion became for Daran a seemingly enchanted instrument through which the spirit of life traveled.
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