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ID: 374579
Title: Three Flames: A Novel
Author: Alan Lightman
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 05:07:58
Language: English
Release date: 09-03-19
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life
Summary:
From the internationally bestselling author of Einsteins Dreams comes a deeply compelling story about the lives of a Cambodian familyset between 1973, just before the Cambodian Genocide by the Khmer Rougeto 2015.
The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightmans haunting Three Flames, his first work of fiction in six years.
Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and the cruel and dictatorial father, set against a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. A mother must fight against memories of her fathers death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, and her powerful desire for revenge. A daughter is married off at sixteen to a wandering husband and his domineering aunt; another daughter is sent to the city to work in the factories to settle her fathers gambling debt. A son dreams of marrying the most beautiful girl of the village and escaping the life of a farmer. And the youngest daughter bravely challenges her father so she can stay in school and strive for a better future.
A vivid story of revenge and forgiveness, of a culture smothering the dreams of freedom, and of tradition against courage, Three Flames grows directly from Lightmans work as the founder of the Harpswell Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance a new generation of female leaders in Cambodia and all of Southeast Asia.
Contact: [email protected]
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ID: 374579
Title: Three Flames: A Novel
Author: Alan Lightman
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 05:07:58
Language: English
Release date: 09-03-19
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life
Summary:
From the internationally bestselling author of Einsteins Dreams comes a deeply compelling story about the lives of a Cambodian familyset between 1973, just before the Cambodian Genocide by the Khmer Rougeto 2015.
The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightmans haunting Three Flames, his first work of fiction in six years.
Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and the cruel and dictatorial father, set against a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. A mother must fight against memories of her fathers death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, and her powerful desire for revenge. A daughter is married off at sixteen to a wandering husband and his domineering aunt; another daughter is sent to the city to work in the factories to settle her fathers gambling debt. A son dreams of marrying the most beautiful girl of the village and escaping the life of a farmer. And the youngest daughter bravely challenges her father so she can stay in school and strive for a better future.
A vivid story of revenge and forgiveness, of a culture smothering the dreams of freedom, and of tradition against courage, Three Flames grows directly from Lightmans work as the founder of the Harpswell Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance a new generation of female leaders in Cambodia and all of Southeast Asia.
Contact: [email protected]