“I wrote this book to make him live again.”
NPR's Lynn Neary interviews Vaddey Ratner on Morning Edition
“I did not want the voice of atrocity to be bigger than the voice of humanity.”
Marty Moss-Coane interviews Vaddey Ratner on Radio Times, Philadelphia public radio
“Cambodia . . . can make a poet out of you, because you are privy to so much tragedy and so much beauty.”
“When facts fail us, when reality becomes too harsh to bear. . . what can we hang onto?”
“As a survivor, I feel, I enter art to save—to immortalize—those I could not protect as a child.”
“Books were my teachers.”
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program
“A single sentence can unravel a decade of mystery.”
“I wanted to be a writer as soon as I became aware of the written language.”
THE BOOKMAGNET
“A story of tragedy, loss, and perseverance is a human story, not confined to Cambodia alone.”