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Run Me to Earth
- Narrated by: Ramòn de Ocampo
- Length: 6 hrs
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Summary
Alisak, Prany, and Noi—three orphans united by devastating loss—must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky.
In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It’s a move with irrevocable consequences—and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world.
Spanning decades and magically weaving together storylines laced with beauty and cruelty, Paul Yoon crafts a gorgeous story that is a breathtaking historical feat and a fierce study of the powers of hope, perseverance, and grace.
“If you truly believe in the transformative power of literature then you must read this book. Run Me to Earth is a genuine masterpiece; fierce, tender, wise, earth-shattering, pulsating with love and hope.”—MIRIAM TOEWS, author of Women Talking
“With Run Me to Earth, Paul Yoon proves, yet again, that he is a master at finding depth of emotion in formal restraint and discovering the timeless core in the most urgent issues of our day. This is one of those rare novels that stays with us to become, over the years, a standard with which we measure other books.”—HERNAN DIAZ, author of In the Distance, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
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- papapownall
- 29-03-20
Powerful story of lives torn apart by war
This is a story of the lives of three orphans Alisak, Prany and his sister Nori, who are parted from their families as a result of the civil war in Laos in the late 1960s. It is brutal and harrowing and realistic and very moving. The story takes us from Laos to Thailand, Spain France and America and covers a period of 50 years in the lives of the three orphans, the challenges they face and the tenacity they demonstrate to counter the adversities they face. .
The real victims of any war are the innocent lives that are wrecked and the families that are torn apart and the winner here is the human spirit. Powerful stuff.
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