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Dana Hui Lim’s Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields is the autobiography of a life lived during one of the most painful times in human history. Hui is the sixth child born to Lim Cher Hoi and Tom Tai Keng in Cambodia. Her life as the daughter of a relatively affluent Chinese businessman in the city of Kratie was shattered when, in 1969, the Vietnam War reached Cambodia and three years later the Khmer Rouge took over the country. She was two years old at that time and was five years old when Year Zero was declared in Cambodia. What follows is a life of labor, hunger, separation, cruelty and survival that is perhaps unequalled in modern human history. That most of her family survived is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields is a poignant story of a family that survived the horrors of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Dana Hui Lim tells her story in a straightforward way, seemingly not asking for sympathy and compassion, but simply wanting to tell her tale. This style heightens the hopelessness of their condition. She has also managed to retain a young girl’s perspective of the murderous events going on around her. Brutally taken from her family home, separated for four years from her family at the age of eight, reunited, and again separated from them as they go through the arduous process of leaving Cambodia - this is a story of a series of dislocations that is surely too devastating for one lifetime. The author also transports her readers to a little hut filled with fear where a frail mother literally protects her children from a tiger, and it is scenes like this that make me believe there is still hope in an otherwise cruel world.
