The Mother Light

The Story of a Young Slave of the Khmer Rouge

Published by She Writes Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

The Mother Light is the harrowing but ultimately uplifting tale of a young woman who survived enslavement by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the late 1970s.

The Cambodian Holocaust was one of the most horrific chapters in the history of humankind. The Mother Light is the true story of a young woman who was a slave under the ruthless Pol Pot Regime for all four years of the genocide and survived. Her immeasurable suffering—displacement, starvation, disease, forced manual labor, and the agony of family members being raped, tortured, and executed—was rivaled only by her wits and her undying desire to see her mother again. Only after a daring sixty-mile escape on foot to Thailand did she finally find her way to safety—and, eventually, to a new life the United States.

Told in stunning detail, The Mother Light is a story of hope in the face of unimaginable cruelty—one that brings the worst and best of humanity into the light.

About The Authors

Rose Payne Christian is a retired professor of biology at Hong Kong Baptist College and Belmont University and adjunct professor of anatomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She earned a Master of Arts in Botany from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Science in Human Anatomy from The University of Alabama at Birmingham. During her years in San Antonio, she was a member of a committee that worked to resettle over three hundred refugees after the fall of Southeast Asia, which included Sorady and her family. An accomplished singer and painter.

Sorady Nachin grew up in Khoki Kandal, Cambodia. She was eighteen years old when the dictator Pol Pot took over her country. For over four years, between 1975 and 1979, she was held as a slave in the Khmer Rouge labor camps.

Product Details

  • Publisher: She Writes Press (April 20, 2027)
  • Length: 256 pages
  • ISBN13: 9798896364658

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