First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung
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First They Killed My Father
A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Author: Loung Ung

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/30/2011


Synopsis

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed. Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality."Ung's memoir should serve as a reminder that some history is best not left just to historians but to those left standing when the terror ends." ---Booklist Starred Review

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Charles on 2015-03-16 21:55:48

THIS WAS A EYE OPENING VIEW FEW PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT. IT TELLS HOW BAD SOME PEOPLE ARE. AND HOW GOOD THE USA IS.