Posted In: Badan Usaha
Three Flames
by Alan Lightman- Author: Alan Lightman
- Language: english
- Publisher: Counterpoint
- Release date: September 3, 2019
- Format: hardcover, 208 pages
- ISBN: 9781640092280 (1640092285)
- Genres: fiction, asia, novels, contemporary
About The Book
From the international bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a deeply compelling story about the lives of a Cambodian family — set between 1973, just before the Cambodian Genocide by the Khmer Rouge — to 2015.
The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman’s 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 father’s 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 father’s 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 Lightman’s 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.
Hardcover book Three Flames read online for Android. Paperback Three Flames Alan Lightman buy on Walmart. TXT ebook Three Flames on Kindle on Book Depository.
Hardback ebook Three Flames by Alan Lightman download. EPUB Three Flames Alan Lightman buy cheap iPhone. FictionBook book Three Flames read on Books-a-Million.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.