Word: szymusiak
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...said to be feasting on corpses; ten-year-olds take their own lives; in a single paragraph May laconically records the deaths of three of his siblings. Some of these horrors may seem almost routine to those who have seen the film The Killing Fields or read Molyda Szymusiak's The Stones Cry Out, a recently published memoir that covers much the same killing ground. Yet May is unusually sensitive to the monstrous ironies of a world turned inside out. While some peasants starved, others, suddenly allowed to eat, gorged themselves till they burst. Having outlawed all emotion and distinction...
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