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Music of the ghosts / Vaddey Ratner.

by Ratner, Vaddey.

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Touchstone, c2017.

Refugees -- Cambodia -- Fiction.

Cambodia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

9781476795782 (hc.)

1476795789 (hc.)

First Touchstone hardcover ed.

324 p. ; 24 cm.

"Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician" and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago. Arriving in Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where perpetrators and survivors of atrocity live side by side. Soon she meets a young doctor who carries his own memories of that time but also shows her a beautiful country on a fragile path of reconciliation. Meanwhile, the Old Musician anticipates the confession he must make. Together Teera and the Old Musician confront the truth of their intertwined past, weaving a melody that will leave both transformed, and freeing Teera to find a new home and a new love in the places she least expects."-- Adapted from book jacket.

Autobiographical fiction.

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