'Dear Kobe' - the True Story of Survival and Escape as Former Cambodian Army Spy Sid Sean and His Family Eluded the Murderous Khmer Rouge
'Dear Kobe' is written by Patricia Collins Schwindt, a journalist and English teacher in Texas and Egypt. Published by Covenant Books, it is available at bookstores and in e-book format online at Apple iTunes, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
JARRELL, Texas, September 25, 2019 (Newswire.com) - It’s all in the new non-fiction book titled “Dear Kobe,” where 75-year-old Sidoeun Sean tells his dramatic story in a letter to his little son, Kobe. Kobe, at age seven, loves his grownup siblings, his father’s first family. But he knows little of the life they experienced during those years when a quarter of Cambodia’s population was murdered. One day, he will want to know where his family came from and what their life was like when they came to the United States as refugees. This is that story.
“Dear Kobe” is written by Patricia Collins Schwindt, a journalist and former English teacher for the US Department of Defense Language Institute in San Antonio, Texas. In the book, “Sid”, as he is known now in Texas, describes the simple life of the 1940s and ‘50s, growing up with his ten brothers and sisters in a village along the Mekong River. He tells about living as a kind of houseboy for an opium dealer. He describes the elation that turned to horror as the people realized what it meant when the Khmer Rouge unleashed Pol Pot’s murderous “agrarian Utopia” in Cambodia in 1975.
“Dear Kobe” is published by Covenant Books, an international Christian owned and operated publishing house in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. The book is available in hardback at bookstores everywhere, or also in e-book format online at Apple iTunes, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
Source: Covenant Books