Pin Yathay is the author of Stay Alive, My Son, a Simon & Schuster book.
"This memoir describes in harrowing detail life in the early years
of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. . . Written in the hope that
his missing son might see the book and be reunited with his father,
Pin's memoir is a direct, honest account of his two years on the
prison farm."--MultiCultural Review
"During the Kampuchean revolutionary madness . . . all the urban
population was driven out to work in the country, creating new
peasant communities which operated on strict, dogmatic Maoist
lines. . . . Pin Yathay's story is told with no attempt at
self-aggrandizement. . . . For he has to live with the shame of
having deserted his own child in order to facilitate his escape, of
losing his wife in the jungle through ineptitude: it is a
revelation of prehistoric strength within the human conscience
which is far beyond our imaginings."--Times Literary Supplement
"In 1975, the Republic of Cambodia was torn asunder by the
'liberating' forces of Pol Pot. Pin Yathay, an engineer employed by
the Ministry of Public Works, was a witness to the tragedy. . . .
His entire family and unnumbered friends were annihilated. . . . A
heart-rending account of the disintegration of an entire social
system, caused by the paranoid policies of Khmer Rouge
cadres."--Christian Science Monitor
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