Sinarth A dedication to life eBook Karl Levy Kerry Davies
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The setting sun headed yet again to the dragging horizon, throwing halos of ever-expanding light into the clouds, its fiery orange streaking the water in paths leading all the way back to Cambodia.
Sinarth heard the explosion just before it blew out his hearing, like a bazooka firing, then felt a faraway thud of a crumpled body hitting the ground from a height. Everything went black except for a few last vestiges of light shrinking slowly to a pinprick before puffing out to grey.
Everyone is levelled looking after each other, whether in battle or in death, there being no rank among the dead.
In the end, all is in vain, life is a privilege.
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This book is based on the real-life account of an ordinary boy’s extraordinary journey to adulthood in Cambodia after the U.S. left Indochina in 1975, taking us through genocide, battle, the sorrow of loss and the discovery of all-encompassing love.
Writing this book entailed countless interviews and numerous journeys with Sinarth over three years visiting places from his past. The result is a story of Sinarth’s life as an emotional interpretation, from childhood through to adulthood. From this perspective, his perception of events was often in conflict with the historical reality. The recollections of these incidents are tempered by time, combined with the Buddhist approach Sinarth learned later in his life. This gave him the tools to evade overwhelming trauma, by remembering negative events as positive and skewing memories.
An important note is that many separate, though very similar, characters were involved in Sinarth’s life at different times over the forty years covered in this book. For the sake of brevity and through use of poetic licence, I have often combined several people into one character. Many incidents of violent battles, of love and genuine care, I have merged into single events. I have created metaphors for various emotional responses to real situations, inventing scenes at times to communicate those feelings. These aspects are woven together into a single tapestry to tell the story.
Hopefully, this book sheds light on Sinarth’s life’s journey and serves as a cautionary tale, that it could have been any one of us through happenstance placed in his situation. His story is representative of events experienced by many Cambodians, each story comparable, but every Cambodian completes a different journey.
Sinarth A dedication to life eBook Karl Levy Kerry Davies
I went to Cambodia in May and loved it. My fiance and I went to the War Museum in Siem Reap which was a great experience. The author was there signing his novel that day so I purchased it on Kindle for the long flight home when we left. I didn't really enjoy the book - the opening was good, told a great story and was logically laid out. The remainder of the story I couldn't get myself through. The writing/story is very disjointed and noncontiguous. I found myself getting lost in what happened and when and with which characters. Too bad because this is a very important historic time, I just simply could not get through the book (I read over half) in the way Levy has written it.Product details
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Sinarth A dedication to life eBook Karl Levy Kerry Davies Reviews
This is an excellent book, with just the correct amount of background history. I think there was a very good balance between the portrayal of the horror of the Khmer Rouge period while making it palatable to read through the Buddhist viewpoint of Sinarth, his friendships and his miraculous journey. Levy provides rich descriptions of the rural backdrop of bucolic landscapes, villages, people and their livestock amidst a ruthless era of unconscionable cruelty. The story about how Sinarth survived this period is quite remarkable.
Recently I had the opportunity to meet Sinarth at the War Museum in Siem Reap. He was our guide through the reminders of a past age that had caused him and so many others so much terror, pain and loss. He spoke in neutral tones, as someone who had shared this a thousand times before, about the history. He showed us the weapons that were used so brutally, but his eyes displayed the sadness and pain that was associated with these memories. He is a true testament to the resilience of the human body, mind and spirit. He showed us the scars from bullet wounds, shell blasts and the loss of his leg after stepping on a land mine. He wiggled a piece of shrapnel with his finger that was lodged under his skin and over his kneecap. I am thankful for what he shared and, to be honest, thankful for what he didn't share. The atrocities that happened during that period are too dreadful to be fully shared and too painful to be willingly accepted. But this book was ultimately one of hope. I highly recommend reading this book to learn more about the world and the mindset to survive the unsurvivable.
Levy’s Sinarth encapsulates layers of sensory experiences during the strife of war and beyond in Cambodia.
Reading such details that the book describes, I recommend one consume each passage slowly, letting each sentence be a conjurer to immerse one’s thoughts into synchronicity with the protagonist in his past environment- Cambodia’s nature and crumbling society; the heavy rains of the wet seasons; the sounds and smells of life that brims everywhere; and the heat and dust of the dry seasons; the death and suffering brought by the Khmer Rouge; fears aroused from hearkening to the sounds at night or the mysteries of what awaited through the jungle, whichever method and direction the enemy’s attacks came from.
The landscape of Cambodia is picked apart into the smallest details to share with the reader, giving one time to escape from, or approach and recognize, the atrocities that plagued Cambodia during authoritarian oppression.
Dead men tell no tales, but few who live are able to present a window into such a dramatic, bittersweet story and find the right person to present their life with a book of such lyrical prose. Nearing the completion of the book, the emotions start to burst from the pages and give one a lot to digest.
Ironically, the Stanford prison experiment took place just a few years after the beginning of the rise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which manifested a country-wide Stanford prison experiment of their own; their entitlement lasting over a generation and memories of that time cannot go away so easily. Power was given to those who didn’t deserve to wield it. Sinarth recognizes that he could have had a similar but worse story if he had had the fate of others boys who were recruited to the Khmer Rouge. Those who survived such carnage deserve to have their stories read, at least certainly written about, on both sides, to show the faces of humanity, at its best and worst.
Can this help other people evade future mass suffering? I think other authors can be inspired by this book to present more windows about the struggles of other survivors of the Cambodian Genocide. Having survivors open up about past wounds is not the hard part, but putting it all together in a book like this, is.
Sinarth is a truly remarkable read a vivid biography of one boy soldier’s life of horror and hope during Pol Pots regime of genocide from 1975 to 1992. Karl Levy’s lucid retelling of Sinarth’s sudden transformation from a happy, river swimming child to one caught in the middle of Cambodia’s chaotic horror. Two million Cambodians, forsaken by all nations in the world, except Vietnam, were lost to Pol Pot’s Marxist revolution for the sake of revolution.
You’d expect Sinarth’s major struggles (he was wounded thrice, blinded and lost a leg to a landmine), tiny victories, tragic and sudden luck amidst this madness would be a depressing story. Instead Levy has turned this biography story into one of hope and beguiling beauty. It's told in the vivid Buddhist embrace of Sinarth's recollections.
The biography is both a pragmatic history lesson and a poetic meditation on hope, reincarnation, a fallen childhood and the simple and beautiful twists fate brings us.
A book like this, one that can embrace the hope of a single individual, in face of overwhelming odds and horror is an inspiration. Highly recommended.
A fascinating account of a terrible time in Cambodia's history
I went to Cambodia in May and loved it. My fiance and I went to the War Museum in Siem Reap which was a great experience. The author was there signing his novel that day so I purchased it on for the long flight home when we left. I didn't really enjoy the book - the opening was good, told a great story and was logically laid out. The remainder of the story I couldn't get myself through. The writing/story is very disjointed and noncontiguous. I found myself getting lost in what happened and when and with which characters. Too bad because this is a very important historic time, I just simply could not get through the book (I read over half) in the way Levy has written it.
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