by Loung Ung · Mainstream Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781840185195
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«First They Killed My Father» is the memoir by Loung Ung, published by Mainstream Publishing in paperback (222 pages, in English).
Loung Ung recalls her childhood in Phnom Penh and the outbreak of war when the Khmer Rouge enter the city in 1975. Separated from her family, she is turned into a child soldier while her siblings are sent to labour camps; the account follows her resistance and the siblings' reunion after the fall of the regime.
First instalment of the Daughter of Cambodia series. Nominated for the Rhode Island Teen Book Award in 2002.
For readers interested in historical memoirs and survival testimonies during the Khmer Rouge regime.
Loung Ung is a Cambodian-American human-rights activist, lecturer, former child soldier and national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World from 1997 to 2003. She has served in the same capacity for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which is affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.
