by Loung Ung
—Publishers Weekly
“Chillingly evocative … a straightforward, unblinking account.”
—Dallas Morning News
“The details … burn like a brand.”
—Sonoma County Independent
“Heart-wrenching. … [Ung’s] memoir will find a valued place in the literature of genocide.”
—Houston Chronicle
“Few books take us through the hellish journey as seen by children—and as deep inside their confused and angry hearts.”
—San Jose Mercury News
“Many memoirs are half hearsay … Loung Ung’s is all firsthand; she remembers a horrific time with the pitiless precision of childhood.”
—Riverside Press-Enterprise
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first they killed my father
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FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER. Copyright © 2000 by Loung Ung.
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EPub Edition © JULY 2010 ISBN: 978-0-062-03654-4
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Ung, Loung.
First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers / Loung Ung.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-019332-8
1. Cambodia—Politics and government—1975–1979. 2. Political atrocities—Cambodia. 3. Ung, Loung. 1. Title.
DS554.8.U54 2000 99-34707
959.604′2—dc21
ISBN-10:0-06-085626-2 (pbk.)
ISBN-13:978-0-06-085626-7 (pbk.)
06 07 08 09 10 /RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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