The Rent Collector
Adapted for Young Readers from the Best-Selling Novel
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ISBN
9781629729855
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Taal
Engels
Auteur
Uitgeverij
Shadow Mountain
Jaar van uitgifte
2022
Aantal pagina's
240
Waar gaat het over?
Based on true events.
Sang Ly lives at Cambodias city dump and is grateful she can help earn a living for her family by sifting through the trash for recyclables and things which can be repaired and sold. On a good day, she can earn enough to buy food for her family. She needs enough good days so she can pay the rent collector, Sopeapa grumpy old woman who shows no mercy and who is willing to evict any tenant who cant pay their rent on time.
When Sang Ly is unable to pay her rent for the month, she fears her family will have to leave the dump and their shanty homea place where her only possessions can be carried in two hands. Little does she know that a discarded childrens book found among the mounds of trash would save her. When Sopeap sees the book lying on Sang Lys cardboard bed, her mood changes. Sang Ly offers her the book if she is allowed to keep her family at the dump.
An unlikely friendship develops between the two women, and Sang Ly learns that Sopeap knows how to readsomething Sang Ly has always wanted to learn. Being able to read could transform Sang Lys world beyond the predictable confines of the dump and lead to a future with possibilities and hope.
But the rent collector has a secret and tragic past, one that will not be easy for Sang Ly to navigate. With the help of her supportive husband, Ki Lim, and a helpful and humorous boy, Lucky Fat, Sang Ly embarks on a life-changing journey to give her young son, Nisay, a better life and future.
The Rent Collector is about the power of literacy, the influence of the past, and finding hope, resiliency, and empowerment in the face of seemingly endless hardship.
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