The Rent Collector [electronic resource]
Camron Wright2012
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Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest
municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging
recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for
their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are
not really working. Just when things seem most bleak, Sang Ly learns a secret
about the hated, ill-tempered woman, the "the rent collector"-she can read!
Reluctantly she agrees to teach Sang Ly and does so with the same harshness
she applied to her collection duties until they both learn how literacy has the
power to instill hope and transcend circumstance.
Based on a true story, set in the abject poverty of Cambodia against the
backdrop of political oppression and the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge.
Main title:
The Rent Collector [electronic resource] / Camron Wright
Author:
Camron Wright, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Shadow Mountain, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (288 pages,)
Audience:
Young-Adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781609072773
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
435311
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