List $32.95

Written by Sophal Leng Stagg, W. E. Stagg & Jack Sandler, Ph.D. - Audio book performed by Susan O'Malley - Unabridged Fiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (1997)

Received the coveted "AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD" (August/September, 1999) for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

Over half a century ago when, Hitler’s advisors were arguing against the launching of a genocide against the Jews for fear of condemnation of world public opinion, he reaffirmed the statement of one of his advisors who exclaimed “Who remembers the Armenian Genocide?” alluding to the ethnic cleansing of over 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish authorities during World War I. Hear Me Now: Tragedy in Cambodia echoes those often forgotten but horrifying words. The narrative is a haunting account of a child’s struggle to survive during the turbulent and violent 70’s in Cambodia. In April 1975, millions of Cambodians suffered as a result of being uprooted from their homes, starved, and tortured. Most died. This deeply touching and personal story portrays a young girl and her family in their unyielding attempts to endure against an avalanche of suffering and pain, all the while clinging to life and dreaming of peace. Her poem, Sophal’s Dream, begins on a note of desperation, but as in her life, her words reveal the hope for a brighter future. While nothing can nullify the nightmarish experiences that canceled any form of childhood for the little girl, her last line, “Not today, it’s not my time. Dream on, dream on, wait another day,” leaves the reader with a sense of heroism and perseverance, by not only the author and her family, but by the millions of other survivors of man’s all-too-frequent inhumanity.