First They Killed My Father
About This Book
Published in 2006, First They Killed My Father presents Loung Ung's personal account of growing up under Cambodia's Khmer Rouge dictatorship throughout the 1970s. The narrative opens as the Khmer Rouge seizes control and drives her family from their home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. What follows is a harrowing existence as forced laborers, constantly terrified that the regime would single them out for persecution.
Who Should Read This?
- Viewers of the Academy Award-winning film The Killings Fields
- Students and enthusiasts of twentieth-century history
- Readers drawn to personal narratives and autobiographical works
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