“Music of the Ghosts” by Vaddey Ratner

Discuss “Music of the Ghosts” by Vaddey Ratner.

Suteera and the Old Musician, and other characters, represent different experiences with the atrocities during the rule of the Khmer Rouge. As you read the book, highlight and explain examples throughout the story of how they cope as survivors, victims, as well as those who may have had a hand in the destruction. Elaborate on examples of how Ratner focuses on the theme of memory, remembering, and forgetting both collectively and individually and how that collective memory and individual memories connect together in the novel. You may speculate on how collective memory and individual memory connect.