by Loung Ung · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781910948033
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«First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers», memoirs by Loung Ung (Mainstream Publishing, paperback).
Loung Ung was five years old when the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in 1975 and her family scattered to survive. Trained as a child soldier while her brothers were sent to labor camps, the author recounts the horror of the Cambodian genocide and her family's effort to reunite after the fall of the regime.
First installment of the «Daughter of Cambodia» series. Tie-in edition with the Netflix movie directed by Angelina Jolie. Text in English.
For readers of memoirs and historical testimonies, and for those who discovered this story through the Netflix movie.
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.
