by Loung Ung · Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060931384
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«First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers» is the autobiography of Loung Ung, published by Perennial in paperback (238 pages).
Loung Ung was five years old when Pol Pot's army entered Phnom Penh in 1975 and her family had to flee. The Khmer Rouge regime scattered her relatives, killed her parents, and trained her as a child soldier in an orphanage camp. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Ung and her surviving siblings managed to reunite.
First volume of the «A Daughter of Cambodia» saga. «New Ed» edition published in 2001, in English.
For readers of historical memoirs, survival testimonies, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge; text in English and suitable for reading clubs.
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.
