{"product_id":"9780241648001","title":"Landbridge : Life in Fragments","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne woman's heart-breaking, life-affirming memoir of loss, survival, bearing witness and a legacy of love\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Landbridge has forever altered what I know, how I love, and what I hope' Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e 'A masterpiece to console and guide generations to come' Alice Pung, author of Unpolished Gem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in, and named after, Thailand's Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung was - aged one - the last of 60,000 Cambodian refugees admitted to Canada, fleeing her homeland in the aftermath of Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge regime. In Canada, Y-Dang became a literal poster child for the benevolence of the Canadian refugee project - and, implicitly, the unknowable horrors of the place she had escaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Landbridge, a family and personal memoir of astonishing power, Y-Dang grapples with a life lived in the shadow of pre-constructed narratives. She considers the transactional relationship between a host country and its refugees; she delves into the contradictions between ethnic, regional and national identities; and she writes to her young son Kai with the promise that this family legacy is passed down with love at its core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in fragmentary chapters, each with the vivid light of a single candle in a pitch-black room, Landbridge is a courageous piece of life writing, the story of a family, and a bold, ground-breaking intervention in the way trauma and migration are told.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allen Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52930759459125,"sku":"EB_HI0900_J01-04_DUBAI","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9780241648001-1.jpg?v=1789400412","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ja\/products\/9780241648001","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}