Cambodia / Genocide / Khmer Rouge
Hardback
Price £8.99
Paperback
One woman's struggle to survive the Khmer Rouge
With Introductions by Jon Swain and David Chandler
With Introductions by Jon Swain and David Chandler
/ SYNOPSIS
In one of the most powerful memoirs of persecution ever written, Denise Affonço recounts how her comfortable life in Phnom Penh was torn apart when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia in April 1975. As a French citizen, Denise Affonço was offered a choice: she could either flee to France with her children or they could all stay together in Cambodia with her husband, Seng, who did not have a French passport. Seng was Chinese and a convinced communist; he believed that the Khmer Rouge would bring an end to five years of civil war. Denise decided the family should stay together. But the Khmer Rouge did not bring peace: Denise and her family, along with millions of their fellow citizens, were deported to a living hell in the countryside where, for almost four years, they endured hard labour, famine, sickness and death.
/ CHARITY
Part of the profits from the sales of To The End of Hell will go to the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), where a scholarship has been set up in the name of Denise Affonço’s nine-year-old daughter Jeannie, who starved to death in 1976 under the Khmer Rouge regime. DC-Cam is an independent research centre dedicated to recording the history of the Khmer Rouge period. The Center’s archival holdings are providing the bulk of the documentary evidence at the UN backed Khmer Rouge tribunal which is taking place in Cambodia.
/ PRESS REVIEWS
| Listen to Denise Affonço talking to the BBC about her story |
'...the sober and moving retelling of a nightmare survived.' - The Economist
Living through the terror / The Economist
A mother never forgets / Jon Swain for The Sunday Times
Denise Affonço Interviewed on France24 Channel
Blogger Andy Brouwer reviews To the end of Hell
Listen to Denise Affonço speak about her experiences under the Khmer Rouge at the CSIS in Washington DC.
Denise Affonço speaks to Voice of America
Read an extract from To the End of Hell on the Holocaust Memorial Trust website
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Catalogue Details - Hardback
October 2007
165pp. Hardback £15.99
16 B&W photos + map
Foreign rights: World english language
November 2008
165pp. B-format paperback £8.99
16 B&W photos + map
Foreign rights: World English language
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Catalogue Details - Paperback
Available now from Reportage Press - £8.99
General Release UK from February 2009 - £8.99
General Release Australia from November 2008
General Release USA and Canada from April 2009 - $15.95
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-906702-07-6
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-955729-5-1
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