First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers / Loung Ung.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062036544
- ISBN: 0062036548
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (238, 16 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
- Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Previously published: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000. "P.S. insights, interviews & more--"--Cover. |
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. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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- Baker & Taylor
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. - 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.
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- Health Communications, Inc.
Repackaged in a new tie-in edition to coincide with the Netflix film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, a moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Potâs brutal regime.
Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights, and sassing her parents. While her beautiful mother worried that Loung was a troublemakerâthat she stomped around like a thirsty cowâher beloved father knew Loung was a clever girl.
When Pol Potâs Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Ungâs family fled their home and moved from village to village to hide their identity, their education, their former life of privilege. Eventually, the family dispersed in order to survive. Loung trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, while other siblings were sent to labor camps. As the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia, destroying the Khmer Rouge, Loung and her surviving siblings were slowly reunited.
Bolstered by the shocking bravery of one brother, the courage and sacrifices of the rest of her familyâand sustained by her sisterâs gentle kindness amid brutalityâLoung forged on to create for herself a courageous new life. Harrowing yet hopeful, insightful and compelling, this story is truly unforgettable.
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