The Resource Music of the ghosts, Vaddey Ratner
Music of the ghosts, Vaddey Ratner
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The item Music of the ghosts, Vaddey Ratner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- An astonishing and powerful new novel from PEN/Hemingway finalist Vaddey Ratner. 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 1 volume.
- Isbn
- 9781476795782
- Label
- Music of the ghosts
- Title
- Music of the ghosts
- Statement of responsibility
- Vaddey Ratner
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMissing persons
- trueRefugees
- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- trueHomecomings
- Refugees -- Cambodia -- Fiction
- History
- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueCambodia -- History -- 20th century
- trueGenocide -- Cambodia
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Cambodia
- trueKhmer Rouge
- trueMusicians
- trueAtonement
- Refugees
- Autobiographical fiction
- trueJustice
- trueForgiveness
- Fiction
- trueAtrocities
- trueMemories
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An astonishing and powerful new novel from PEN/Hemingway finalist Vaddey Ratner. 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
- Summary
- Returning to the Cambodian homeland she fled as a child refugee decades earlier, Teera finds herself in a country of survivors and perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge holocaust before bonding with a mysterious musician who claims to have known her late father
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- 10552678
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ratner, Vaddey
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cambodia
- Refugees
- Refugees
- Cambodia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Music of the ghosts, Vaddey Ratner
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn952979950
- Edition
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 1 volume.
- Isbn
- 9781476795782
- Lccn
- 2016026793
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)952979950
- Label
- Music of the ghosts, Vaddey Ratner
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn952979950
- Edition
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 1 volume.
- Isbn
- 9781476795782
- Lccn
- 2016026793
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)952979950
Subject
- 1900-1999
- trueAtonement
- trueAtrocities
- Autobiographical fiction
- Cambodia
- trueCambodia -- History -- 20th century
- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueForgiveness
- trueGenocide -- Cambodia
- History
- trueHomecomings
- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueJustice
- trueKhmer Rouge
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMemories
- trueMissing persons
- trueMusicians
- trueRefugees
- Refugees
- Refugees -- Cambodia -- Fiction
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