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First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung
A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers
Harper Perennial
April 2006
On Sale: April 1, 2006
288 pages ISBN: 0060856262 EAN: 9780060856267 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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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