238pp. First published in 2000 in hardcover; this copy, stated: "First Perennial edition published 2001" with '04' in number line. Black and white photo-portrait illustrated wrappers with red title and subtitle bands for white lettering placed across eyes of girl/author in photo and middle of photo, respectively, with red band across bottom front cover for author name lettering in black. Binding tight, corners with barely a hint of use, text lightly, uniformly toned. No previous owner-written names, Clean text. Inscribed by author on ffep/endorsement page: "To - - -,/Peace,/[Initials]". Seller Inventory # 000733

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Title: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of ...

Publisher: Perennial/HarperCollinsPublishers, New York

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Inscribed and Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition

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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. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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"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)

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Retired academic's reference library with specialization in philosophy, religion, science, and mathematics--all scholarly subject areas; Pre-Socratics to contemporary; biographies; some series collections. General stock also, including fiction, poetry, literary criticism, mysteries, some foreign language, children's, history, sociology, psychology, education. Some signed copies.

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