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Author:

Ung, Loung, author.

Title:

First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers / Loung Ung.

Edition:

First Harper Perennial edition.
Tie-in edition.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

238, 16 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 21 cm

Subject:

Ung, Loung.
Ung, Loung--Childhood and youth.
Cambodia--Politics and government--1975-1979.
Political atrocities--Cambodia.
Autobiographies.

Notes:

Previously published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover; (on 16 pages at end of book). "Now a Netfilx film by Angelina Jolie"--Cover.

Contents:

Phnom Penh (April 1975) -- The Ung family (April 1975) -- Takeover (April 17, 1975) -- Evacuation (April 1975) -- Seven-day walk (April 1975) -- Krang Truop (April 1975) -- Waiting station (July 1975) -- Anglungthmor -(July 1975) - Ro Leap (November 1975) -- Labor camps (January 1976) -- New Year's (April 1976) -- Keav (August 1976) -- Pa (December 1976) -- Ma's little monkey (April 1977) -- Leaving home ((May 1977) -- Child soldiers (August 1977) -- Gold for chicken (November 1977) -- The last gathering (May 1978) -- The walls crumble ((November 1978) -- The Youn invasion (January 1979) -- The first foster family ((January 1979) -- Flying bullets (February 1979) -- Khmer Rouge attack (February 1979) -- The execution (March 1979) -- Back to Bat Deng (April 1979) -- From Cambodia to Vietnam (October 1979) -- Lam Sing Refugee Camp (February 1980) -- Epilogue.

Summary:

A harrowing memoir of a Cambodian family shattered by Pol Pot's regime, First They Killed My Father is a powerful, unforgettable story of courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

ISBN:

0062561308
9780062561305

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1001437492

Locations:

EXPC755 -- Akron Public Library (Akron)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)