by Loung Ung · PERENNIAL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060856267
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«First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers» is the memoir by Loung Ung, published by Harper Perennial in paperback.
Loung Ung, daughter of a high-ranking official, evokes her childhood in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime: the comfortable life in Phnom Penh, her family's flight, and her training as a child soldier in a camp for orphans, while her siblings are sent to labor camps. A testimony of resistance, loss and hope.
First book in the Daughter of Cambodia series. 238-page English edition published in 2006.
For readers interested in war memoirs, Cambodian history and survival stories from a child's perspective.
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.
