Though the book is a work of fiction, it was inspired by real people who lived at the Stung Meanchey dump in Cambodia. (For more information, click the link to. It takes place on a giant garbage dump in Cambodia, a prescription for a miserable life, but the book itself is surprising gentle, and up-lifting. A young. The story is set in Cambodia just after the decline of the Khmer Rouge regime. The two main characters, Sang Ly and her husband live in Stung Meanchey, a.
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Learn More. Domestic and International Shipping Options. A passionately poignant work. Read More. Camron Wright View Products. Filter by Keyword. Showing 1 - 5 of reviews. Tiffanie, Gates Jan 26, Great moral. Remember be kind to everyone. Love it! Annette Caballero Oct 25, Pretty good. Lisa Riley Oct 8, Loved it!
Almost immediately I fell into the story, into the life of Sang Ly. I heard her voice as clear as a bell as she rose up from the dump, as real as a flesh and blood woman.
I loved the hope in the heart that beat in her chest as she and her husband eked out a bare existence by picking junk from the huge municipal dump in Cambodia to pay the rent, keep food on the table, and care for their chronically ill child.
There are no downers in this story of abject poverty, for the voice of Sang Ly somehow keeps the tone of the story uplifting. I never felt sorry for Sang Ly even though I normally would have. I think because she had a spirit that lifted her on wings of hope. She was also tenacious and brave. This story is beautiful, it reminds me of another story set in the midst of a German Nazi concentration camp, called Life Can Be Beautiful. I think I shall keep this book forever, even as I seek to share it with everyone I know.
Sometimes we are the hero. I so want my 8th grade students who struggle with reading to understand the power of literacy and the lessons that books teach us. This book about a hopeful Camdodian mother living in a garbage dump and her determination to become a reader and her curmudgeon teacher Sopeap will give you much to think about and the author expresses so perfectly the inestimable value of how stories shape and nurture the reader.
Although fictional, this story draws on the lives and challenges of real people in a real place. You care about the characters and are appalled at their day to day challenges to survive. I found it difficult to put this book down. Also makes me want to read more by Camron Wright.
A young mother living in a dump in Cambodia wants to figure out how to make her sick baby better. When she realizes the ornery rent collector knows how to read, she begs her to give her lessons. She feels the ability to read will better both her life and the life of her baby. In the process of the reading lessons, she not only learns to define literature, but she learns the back ground of the rent collector herself and it's not at all what she imagines in the beginning.
It' a very profound look at what's important in life. Is it where you live? What you own? Or is it what you know? Or maybe what you've experienced? I enjoyed this look into a lifestyle so different from my own. I also enjoyed the look into the history, the terrible history, of the Khmer Rouge Not that I understand it now, except that it's not a good thing.
See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. Tragic that people live this way, beggars belief. I found the writing a little tedious, but it did give insight into how others survive in what daily becomes a more and more difficult world. Report abuse. The book is a moving fictional novel about a lady who has lived a life spanning from before the Khmer Rouge period to modern day Cambodia.
It is beautifully written, in that much of character development and the story is told by alternate literature which is a metaphor for the various character's lives. This is perhaps what I loved about the book the most. I have given the book 5 star because I felt myself moved and touched by the characters and I think it also makes us reflect on how Cambodia's populas has been restructured as a result of the Khmer Rouge genocide.
If this story was given a bit more editing it would be amazing! One person found this helpful. Gemma Coles. Loved it - it really made me think about being grateful for the moment I am living right now.
How I should be grateful for everything I have and that life isn't always greener on the other side. I found it heavy in places but this made me want to be a better reader and understand more about literature. I loved the story, the theme and the way it was written. I did not want it to end. What a lovely and humbling book, well written and uplifting, didn't want it to end Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations.
Back to top. Get to Know Us. Make Money with Us. Amazon Payment Products. Let Us Help You. The written word offers hope for a brighter future in Wright's fact-based new novel after Letters for Emily. Sang Ly lives with her husband, Ki, and their habitually ill son, Nisay, in Cambodia's biggest municipal dump—Stung Meanchey.
There, residents pick through the mountains of garbage in order to salvage resalable bits of flotsam, but Sang Ly is desperate to escape and secure a better life for her ailing son. The titular rent collector—"an abrupt, bitter, angry woman" named Sopeap Sin, but whom everyone calls "Cow—" turns out to be the gracious means by which Sang Ly's dreams might be realized.
Hoping to educate Nisay, Sang Ly asks Sopeap Sin to teach her how to read, and as their pedagogical relationship deepens, so too does Sang Ly's understanding of literature expand and enrich her experience of life.
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I feel that The Rent Collector: Adapted For Young Readers should become a must-read for teens in school. This book has become a classic that. Ki Lim, Sang Ly, and Nisay are a real family who really did live at Stung Meachey, and the details of their life there are true. The author's. The story is set in Cambodia just after the decline of the Khmer Rouge regime. The two main characters, Sang Ly and her husband live in Stung Meanchey, a.
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