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First They Killed My Father : A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung; OverDrive, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Pot’s 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 troublemaker—that she stomped around like a thirsty cow—her beloved father knew Loung was a clever girl. When Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Ung’s 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 shocki

Who reads First They Killed My Father : A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers?

Author

Loung Ung; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060856267

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, Science

Rating

4.3 / 5 (122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14