First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers

By:

Ung, Loung

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Harper Perennial 2006 New YorkDescription: xi, 238 p.: illISBN:

9780060856267

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

959.6042 U6F4

Summary: One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed. Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/first-they-killed-my-father-loung-ung?variant=32207914991650

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Table of contents

Phnom Penh
The Ung family
Takeover
Evacuation
Seven-day walk
Krang Truop
Waiting station
Anglungthmor
Ro Leap
Labor camps
New Year's
Keav
Pa
Ma's little monkey
Leaving home
Child soldiers
Gold for chicken
The last gathering
The walls crumble
The Youn invasion
The first foster family
Flying bullets
Khmer Rouge attack
The execution
Back to Bat Deng
From Cambodia to Vietnam
Lam Sing Refugee Camp

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/first-they-killed-my-father-loung-ung?variant=32207914991650

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