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First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers / Loung Ung.

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.

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.