Strangers in Black

This is a novel about a young boy's struggle to survive the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It is a graphic and horrific account of what befalls Mok and his family when Pol Pot's regime takes power. Mok is nine years old when the atrocities begin, and through persistence, courage, and luck, he survives one of the most barbaric episodes in the last half of the twentieth century. This true story describes Mok's experiences of the grinding pains of hunger, debilitating disease, forced labor, separated families, and massacres. Readers are led into the increasingly desperate plight of Mok and to an understanding of the cruelty of the Khmer Rouge and the enormity of what took place in Cambodia.