Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father (eBook, ePUB)

A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl, and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot's brutal regimeNOW A NETFLIX FILM BY ANGELINA JOLIE.

Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights, and sassing her parents. While her beautiful mother worried that Loung was a troublemaker her beloved father knew Loung was a clever girl.

When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Ung's family fled their home and moved from village to village to hide their identity, their education, their former life of privilege. Eventually, the family dispersed in order to survive. Loung trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, while other siblings were sent to labor camps. As the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia, destroying the Khmer Rouge, Loung and her surviving siblings were slowly reunited.

Bolstered by the shocking bravery of one brother, the courage and sacrifices of the rest of her familyand sustained by her sister's gentle kindness amid brutalityLoung forged on to create for herself a bold new life. Harrowing yet hopeful, insightful and compelling, this story is truly unforgettable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062036544
• Artikelnr.: 38005511

Autorenporträt

Loung Ung was the National Spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World, a program of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for co-founding the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Ung lectures extensively, appears regularly in the media, and has made more than thirty trips back to Cambodia. She is also the author of Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind and LuLu in the Sky.