Download or read book Music Through the Dark written by Bree Lafreniere and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I cannot tell you how or why I survived; I do not know myself. It is like this: love and music and memory and invisible hands, and something that comes out of the society of the living and the dead, for which there are no words.” So begins the extraordinary story of one man’s experience of Cambodia’s holocaust during the 1970s. As Anne Frank did in her Diary, Daran Kravanh takes readers into the heart of a horrifying tragedy—one that claimed the lives of his parents and seven siblings and as many as three million other Cambodians. Among those murdered were thousands of intellectuals and artists; as a musician, Daran was himself a target for execution, but it was his talent for playing the accordion that saved his life. Find out more about Daran Kravanh’s music.