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The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine |  | Author: Somaly Mam
Creators: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 33892
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0385526229
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.76092
EAN: 9780385526227
ASIN: 0385526229
Publication Date: July 28, 2009
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A riveting and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope–by a woman named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. She suffered unspeakable acts of brutality and witnessed horrors that would haunt her for the rest of her life–until, in her early twenties, she managed to escape. Unable to forget the girls she left behind, Mam became a tenacious and brave leader in the fight against human trafficking, rescuing sex workers–some as young as five and six–offering them shelter, rehabilitation, healing, and love and leading them into new life.
Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence is a memoir that will leave you awestruck by the courage and strength of this extraordinary woman and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change.
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Devastating Story That Will Make You Angry, Sick, Sad, and Hopefully Inspire You To Do Something. August 27, 2009
Krupali Tejura
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A few weeks ago a friend came across this book when they were delayed at an airport. After reading it they sent me an email about a book that made them so angry, that they had figured out what they wanted to do to change a little bit of this world.
A week later an Amazon box arrived at my doorstep with the book inside.
I opened it, read it in a day, and was devastated.
This book is powerful. A story of Somaly Mam, a young girl who was sold at an early age into prostitution in Cambodia... it is the raw truth of her experiences she had, watching her friend being shot in the head, to being covered with maggots to instill fear inside of her, to forcefully being thrown into rooms filled with men to 'do her duty'.
Each encounter was a vivid painful memory. Her story of how she came to start an organization to help these women is inspiring and phenomenal. It makes you want to go out and help her, and others in the world who are suffering from this tragedy.
A quote from the book that touched me is the following:
"I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change." -- Somaly Mam
I highly recommend the read. It will change a piece of you forever.
Only a total of 24 reviews??? October 16, 2009
Patee333 (California USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is not getting enough notice. People need to read this book!!! There should be hundreds of reviews for it, but there's only a total of 24 including reviews for the hardcover as well. Someone needs to market the hell out of this book like RIGHT NOW!!! I have recommended it to all my friends and co-workers, in hopes to just get people to know about the horrors that are happening in Cambodia, and all over the world. This book was an eye-opener into a world that I was completely ignorant about. It's despicable that people exist to have brutal sex with poor innocent young children. Somaly Mam's book details the horrors in graphic detail and really makes you think! THINK!!! Here I am sitting and browsing online book reviews while a dozen innocent young girls are being brutally raped every minute in some filthy brothel in Cambodia or other countries. Is this what the world is coming to? The sex slave trafficking industry is one of the top three earning billions of dollars illegally....yet somehow, all governments are turning a blind eye to it. People like Somaly are trying to their best to help but the situation is just so daunting and out of control, I really don't know if it can ever be stopped or fixed. That's the horrible truth behind it. Young girls as young as 4-years-old are sold into brothels and savagely gang raped over and over again by men who are demons from hell. Pimps torture the poor girls to make them submit and to kill their spirit. People in the US need to seriously sit down and THINK. Quit complaining about what you don't have and how we suffer because of a bad economy. We have it 1000 times better than 99% of the world, yet we want more and we whine and complain. Americans need to educate themselves and not turn a blind eye to the horrors around the world. Ignorance is NOT bliss!!!
A must read or listen to for everyone. November 24, 2008
Sondra W. Walters (Rupert, ID USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent writing and very eye opening. It helps to understand the current culture in Cambodia and the tragic human traficking of young women and girls in East Asia.
The greatest book by the greatest woman. She is brave and strong I have ever seen. September 15, 2009
Wongchan Surat
Yes we live in the same world, but diferent country, human race and culture.However, we need the same thing, a peaceful world. She made her own way to make a world peace. Why not we do the same thing?
A must read! October 25, 2009
Kelly Bailey (Utah)
A raw and educational life story that will leave you wanting to help the women and children in the sex slave industry.
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