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By Vannak Anan Prum,Ben Pederick

ISBN-10: 1609806026

ISBN-13: 9781609806026

Too negative to pay his pregnant wife's medical institution invoice, Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to hunt paintings in Thailand. males who looked to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to come back him domestic after a couple of months at sea, yet as a substitute Vannak was once hostaged at the vessel for 4 years of difficult hard work. Amid violence and cruelty, together with widespread beheadings, Vannak survived largely through honing his skill to tattoo his shipmates--a ability he possessed regardless of by no means having been informed in artwork or having had entry to artwork offers whereas becoming up.  

As a way of break out, Vannak and a pal jumped into the water and, hugging empty fish-sauce packing containers simply because they can now not swim, reached Malaysia at nighttime of evening. on the harbor, they have been taken right into a police station . . . then bought by means of their rescuers to paintings on a plantation. Vannak was once stored as a laborer for over a yr sooner than an NGO may safe his go back to Cambodia. After 5 years away, Vannak used to be eventually reunited along with his family. 

Vannak documented his ordeal in uncooked, colourful, specified illustrations, first created simply because he believed that with no them not anyone might think his tale. certainly, little or no is understood approximately what occurs to the boys and boys who turn out engaged on fishing boats in Asia, and those photos are a number of the first documents. In local Cambodia, many households nonetheless watch for males who've disappeared around the Thai border, and out to sea. The lifeless Eye and the Deep Blue Sea is a testomony to the lives of those many fishermen who're trapped on boats within the Indian Ocean.

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