First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers / Loung Ung.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780060856267 (tpbk.) :
- ISBN: 0060856262 (tpbk.) :
- Physical Description: 238, 16 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Harper Perennial edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2006.
- Copyright: 2000.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Cambodia > Politics and government > 1975-1979. Political atrocities > Cambodia. Ung, Loung. |
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Lillooet Branch | 959.604 ung (Text) | 35180000287697 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-07 |
Burns Lake Public Library | 959.604 Ung (Text) | 35198000521592 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Campus Library | DS 554.83 U54 2006 (Text)
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B001243716 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |
Greenwood Public Library | 959.6042 UNG (Text) | 35141000131996 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Kitimat Public Library | 959.604 Ung (Text) | 32665002090449 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Ochre River | 921 UNG (Text) | 35419002781913 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Swan River Library | 959.60 UNG (Text) | 33880000536827 | Adult Non Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Teulon Library | B UNG (Text) | 3678721915 | Biographies | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Chronicles the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, from the author's forced "evacuation" of Phnom Penh in 1975 to her family's subsequent movements from town to town and eventual separation. - HARPERCOLL
From a childhood survivor of the Camdodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit.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.
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- HARPERCOLL
âA riveting memoir. . . an important, moving work that those who have suffered cannot afford to forget and those who have been spared cannot afford to ignore.â â San Francisco Chronicle
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit.
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.