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First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers

Ung, Loung2016
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Until the age of 5, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, 1 of 7 children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights and being cheeky to her parents. When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Loung's family fled their home and were eventually forced to disperse to survive. Loung was trained as a child soldier while her brothers and sisters were sent to labour camps. The surviving siblings were only finally reunited after the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia and started to destroy the Khmer Rouge. Bolstered by the bravery of one brother, the vision of the others and the gentle kindness of her sister, Loung forged on to create for herself a courageous new life.
Author:
Ung, Loung, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Mainstream Publishing, 2016.
Collation:
282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Film tie-in.Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
ISBN:
9781910948033 (pbk)
Dewey class:
959.6042092959.6042B959.6042959.604
LC class:
DS554.8
Local class:
B UNG
Language:
English
BRN:
1655048
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