Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna, translated from French by Helge Dascher, Drawn & Quarterly While sometimes harrowing and heavy, Veasna juxtaposes light and dark offering readers intimate glimpses of love and hope between family members in hand drawn photographs.Ī poignant and deeply moving account of one of the darkest periods in Cambodian history-and a family’s survival.Ĭlick here to purchase this book with us. Much like Art Spiegelman’s Maus, in which Spiegelman transforms his father’s recordings onto the pages of his comic book, Veasna recounts his father’s memories of the Khmer Rouge with historical accuracy. Born in the Year of the Rabbit, 1975, cartoonist Tian Veasna captures the events of the Cambodian genocide as they unfold. Moments later, the reader heads south into a Khmer Rouge reeducation camp and adopts the point of view of a newly displaced villager. Phnom Penh, 1975 – The Cambodian capital is evacuated by the Khmer Rouge and transformed into a ghost town.
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