![]() ![]() The remaining family is relocated once again, but this time, Raami and her mother are separated from the group. Along with others, the family is relocated to an abandoned school building and lives in relative peaceful coexistence with the Organization until Raami's father is forced to reveal his royal family name and turn himself in. ![]() ![]() The chapters are enlivened by the poems that Raami's father writes and recites, and myths and folk tales that live on in Raami's memory. Seven-year-old Raami and her extended family of royal lineage, like the rest of Cambodia's intellectual and middle class, take part in the migration from the capital city Phnom Penh, leaving behind their homes, professions, and when possible, even their suddenly dangerous middle-class identities.ĭespite the grim circumstances, In the Shadow of the Banyan yokes the beauty of the lush terrain and farmland with haphazard cruelty and violence. I n April 1975, the now-notorious Khmer Rouge government (called the Organization in this ambitious first novel) forced all residents in urban areas to uproot and join a mass migration to the rural provinces. ![]()
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