First They Killed My Father

By - Ung, Loung

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Harper Perennial, New York, 2006

ISBN 10 - 0060856262

ISBN 13 - 9780060856267

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Political atrocities

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 959.6042 UNG

Physical Description - 238, 16 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm + 1 lecture booklet

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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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