LEADER 01811nam 2200385Ka 450 001 9910149396003321 005 20240912104837.2 010 $a1-60907-277-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000933504 035 $a(BIP)043208737 035 $a(ODN)ODN0001553881 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000933504 100 $a20140225d2012 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe rent collector /$fCamron Wright 210 $d2012 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a1-60907-705-9 330 $aSurvival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not really working. Just when things seem most bleak, Sang Ly learns a secret about the hated, ill-tempered woman, the "the rent collector"-she can read! Reluctantly she agrees to teach Sang Ly and does so with the same harshness she applied to her collection duties until they both learn how literacy has the power to instill hope and transcend circumstance. Based on a true story, set in the abject poverty of Cambodia against the backdrop of political oppression and the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. 606 $aFiction$2OverDrive 606 $aLiterature$2OverDrive 610 $aFiction 615 17$aFiction. 615 7$aLiterature. 676 $a813/.6 686 $aFIC000000$aFIC041000$aFIC044000$2bisacsh 700 $aWright$b Camron$01249936 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149396003321 996 $aThe Rent Collector$93600678 997 $aUNINA