First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - Hardcover

Ung, Loung

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060193328 ISBN 13: 9780060193324

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

The stirring true story of a girl who survived the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia retraces her steps from the forced "evacuation" of Phnom Penh in 1975 when she was a girl of five, to her family's subsequent movements from town to town and eventual separation, which resulted in her parents' deaths and her being trained as a child soldier.

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Review:

"So sharp with pain that when I read it, the words plunged into me like a knife" (Jon Swain Sunday Times)

"There can be absolutely no doubt about the innate power of [Ung's] story, the passion with which she tells it or its enduring importance" (Washington Post Book World)

"Ung's memoir should serve as a reminder that some history is best not left just to historians but to those left behind when the terror ends" (Booklist)

"I was deeply affected by Loung’s book. It deepened my understanding of how children experience war and are affected by the emotional memory of it" (Angelina Jolie Pitt)

From the Publisher:

An unforgettable narrative of war crimes and desperate actions from a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0060193328
• ISBN 13: 9780060193324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240