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Author Vannak, Prum, author, artist.

Title The dead eye and the deep blue sea : a graphic memoir of modern slavery / Vannak Anan Prum ; as told to Ben & Jocelyn Pederick ; and translated by Lim Sophorn.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  GRAPHIC 306.362 VANNAK    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  GRAPHIC BIOG. VANNAK, P.    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  GRAPHIC NOVEL VANNAK    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  GN DEAD EYE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  AD GRAPHIC 306.362 PRUM    Check Shelf
Edition A Seven Stories Press first edition.
Description xviii, 235 pages ; 16 x 20 cm
Summary "Too poor to pay his pregnant wife's hospital bill, Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to return him home after a few months at sea, but instead Vannak was hostage on the vessel for four years of hard labor. Amid violence and cruelty, including frequent beheadings, Vannak survived in large part by honing his ability to tattoo his shipmates--a skill he possessed despite never having been trained in art or having had access to art supplies while growing up. As a means of escape, Vannak and a friend jumped into the water and, hugging empty fish-sauce containers because they could not swim, reached Malaysia in the dark of night. At the harbor, they were taken into a police station . . . then sold by their rescuers to work on a plantation. Vannak was kept as a laborer for over a year before an NGO could secure his return to Cambodia. After five years away, Vannak was finally reunited with his family. Vannak documented his ordeal in raw, colorful, detailed illustrations, first created because he believed that without them no one would believe his story. Indeed, very little is known about what happens to the men and boys who end up working on fishing boats in Asia, and these images are some of the first records. In regional Cambodia, many families still wait for men who have disappeared across the Thai border, and out to sea. The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea is a testament to the lives of these many fishermen who are trapped on boats in the Indian Ocean"--Provided by publisher.
Subject Human trafficking -- Thailand.
Fisheries -- Corrupt practices.
Tattoo artists. (OCoLC)fst01143548
Human trafficking -- Malaysia.
Cambodia. (OCoLC)fst01207659
Thailand. (OCoLC)fst01205310
Fishers. (OCoLC)fst00926174
Slave labor. (OCoLC)fst01120393
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Subject Malaysia. (OCoLC)fst01204590
Tattoo artists -- Cambodia -- Biography.
Plantation workers -- Malaysia -- Sibu (Sarawak) -- Biography.
Fishers -- Cambodia -- Biography.
Plantation workers. (OCoLC)fst01065796
Malaysia -- Sibu (Sarawak) (OCoLC)fst01280177
Slave labor -- Malaysia.
Enslaved persons -- Biography.
Vannak, Prum.
Enslaved persons. (OCoLC)fst01120522
Slave labor -- Thailand.
Human trafficking. (OCoLC)fst01739818
Genre/Form Graphic novels.
Added Author Pederick, Ben, author.
Pederick, Jocelyn, author.
Sophorn, Lim, translator.
Added Title Graphic memoir of modern slavery
ISBN 9781609806026 (hardcover)
1609806026 (hardcover)
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