DENISE CHONG

Entre las imágenes perdurables de la guerra más fotografiada del siglo XX destaca la de una niña que grita de dolor y terror después de haber sido quemada con napalm en un ataque aéreo. Es una imágen que permanece grabada en la memoria de todos aquellos que vivieron en los años de aquella guerra. Este libro es la historia de aquella fotografia y de lo que le sucedio a la niña despues de que se tomara aquella foto y que Saigon cayera en manos de las fuerzas comunistas de Vietnam del norte.

International bestselling author of The Concubines Children, Denise Chong returns to the subject of her most beloved book, the lives and times of Canadas early Chinese families. In 2011, Denise Chong set out to collect the history of the earliest Chinese settlers in and around Ottawa, who made their homes far from any major Chinatown. Many would open cafes, establishments that once dotted the landscape across the country and were a monument to small-town Canada. This generation of Chinese immigrants lived at the intersection of the Exclusion Act in Canada, which divided families between here and China, and 2 momentous upheavals in China: the Japanese invasion and war-time occupation; and the victory of the Communists, which ultimately led these settlers to sever ties with China. This book of overlapping stories explores the trajectory of a universal immigrant experience, one of looking in the rear view mirror while at the same time, travelling toward an uncertain future. Intimate, haunting and powerful, Lives of the Family reveals the immigrants tenacity in adapting to a new world.

Denise Chong, the beloved author of The Concubines Children, tells the story of a man who humiliated a repressive regime in front of the entire world, and whose daring gesture informs our view of human rights to this day. Despite his familys impeccable Communist roots, Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, grew up intuiting all that was wrong with Maos China. As a young man he believes truth and decency mattered, only to learn that preserving the Chairmans legacy mattered more. Lus story reads like Shakespearean drama, peppered with defiance, love and betrayal. His steadfast refusal to acquiesce comes to a head, but not an end, with his infamous defacing of Maos portrait during the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square.

"More than any other Vietnam book in recent years, The Girl in the Picture confronts us with the ceaseless, ever-compounding casualties of modern warfare." The San Francisco ChronicleOn June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and the story of what happened to that girl after the camera shutter closed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chongs portrait of Kim Phuc-who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCO spokesperson-is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese point-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday life in the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on all its participants.

WINNER of the Ottawa Book Award for Non-fictionWINNER of the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book A TORONTO STAR BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Concubines Children and The Girl in the Picture, a gripping story of a domestic assault that shocked the world, of the exercise of power and political influence, and of the Bangladeshi woman whose irrepressible spirit found light in sudden darkness.From the outside, Rumana seemed an unlikely victim of domestic abuse: married to a man of her own choosing and progressing in her career as a professor of international relations at Dhaka University. But in 2011, on return from graduate studies at the University of British Columbia, her husband attacked and blinded her in front of their young daughter. As Rumanas horrifying story garnered international headlines, and connections brought her to Vancouver in an attemptultimately futileto restore her sight, her plight underscored the fact that there are no typical victims of intimate-partner violence. Denise Chong goes behind the headlines to reveal the devolution of a love story into a tale of tyranny behind closed doors, and the pursuit of justice that proved all the more elusive during the rise of social media. Out of Darkness tells a globe-spanning narrative of loyalty, perseverance and a womans determination to face the future and rebuild a life with meaning.