by Pin Yathay · Silkworm Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789747551266
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«Stay Alive, My Son» is Pin Yathay's autobiographical testimony about the Khmer Rouge, published by Silkworm Books in paperback (267 pages, in English).
Pin Yathay recounts how he and his family, urban evacuees turned into "new people", were forced to live and work as peasants after the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. The account describes the struggle for survival in the labor camps and the devastating decision to abandon his six-year-old son in order to escape the "killing fields".
The book was published by Silkworm Books in 2000, in English. It includes acknowledgments, a map of Cambodia with Pin Yathay's escape route, a preface and twelve chapters ranging from "Revolution" to the epilogue.
For readers interested in historical testimonies and survival memoirs during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
