Dogs at the perimeter [electronic resource] : a novel / Madeleine Thien.
Summary:
One starless night, a girl's childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from the city, she and her family were forced to live out in the open under constant surveillance. Each night, people were taken away. Caught up in a political storm which brought starvation to millions, tore families apart, and changed the world forever, she lost everyone she loved.
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- ISBN: 9780771084102 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0771084102 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2011.
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Subject: | Families > Fiction. Montréal (Québec) > Fiction. Cambodia > History > 1975-1979 > Fiction. |
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Madeleine Thien is the author of two previous books of fiction, Simple Recipes, a collection of stories, and Certainty, a novel. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Granta, The Walrus, Five Dials, Brick, and the Asia Literary Review, and her work has been translated into more than sixteen languages. In 2010, she received the Ovid Festival Prize, awarded each year to an international writer of promise. She lives in Montreal.