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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Harper Perennial Catalog: Book Release date: 2006-04-04 Media: Paperback Format: Bargain Price Number of pages: 288  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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 Written on April 7, 2006 Summary: First they Killed my Father This touching memoir "First They Killed My Father" will immediately suck you into its pages. Young Loung Ung writes from a hypnotic point of view of a small child during Khmer Rouge's homicidal regime in 1975. This story is moved by deaths of family members, forced separation, starvation, attempted rape, mental cruelty and finally the reuniting of a broken, lost family. This amazingly written memoir kept me gripping for more. The realistic structure will keep anyone in amazement and horror to what really went on in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. This story is a heart-wrenching, recounts her survival, courage, and triumph, highly recommended for mature readers. Written on April 7, 2006 Summary: First They Killed My Father In First They Killed My Father, when tragedy strikes, and Cambodia's Pol Pot takes over, five year old Loung Ung and her family are living middle class in Phnom Penh. They are forced to pack up and leave their classy, care free life, and travel on foot away from their home. The children are separated and sent to labor camps where they are taught to kill even their own traitor parents. Loung and her family are caught tragically between life or death situations as their country crumbles. Through this beautifully written memoir, Loung is able to thoroughly describe the devastating situation millions of Cambodians faced, through the spunky eyes of a little girl. Since this actually happened to her, she is able to put you in the situation and make you feel the starvation and devastating loss. First They Killed My Father is an unforgettable story that will haunt you, but keep you reading excitedly as the dramatic purpose of it sinks in. The amount of emotion this small girl can pour out is beyond powerful as she faces this harsh dictatorship. Written on April 7, 2006 Summary: A Must Read Author Loung Ung has a first hand experience to the tragic happenings in Cambodia in the 1970's. The Cambodian Civil War has a turnout that no one expected or really wants: Communist rule. The leader in charge of all this is Communists was a man named Pol Pot. Pol Pot's army, the Khmer Rouge, is full of heartless fiends who would kill someone for wearing glasses, since they thought this was a sign of intelligence. Their main goal is to make everyone equal, and no one smarter than the other. Pol Pot is committing mass genocide to the people in Cambodia. Though the title is First They Killed My Father, her father's death isn't even the start of the tragedy that takes place to this normal middle-class family. The suffering and pain of this family is tragic. For a scary and eventful book that you can't put down, First They Killed My Father will surely engage and keep you locked in. The emotional things this five year old witnessed, is frightful and unacceptable. For a first hand historical book, but not an encyclopedia entry, this book should be on your "to read" list. Loung Ung is now the national spokesperson for the Landmine free world. Written on January 13, 2006 Summary: Emotionally compelling! The purpose of this review is not to rehash the details of the book, but to try to relate what a profoundly emotional story she tells. I literally could not put it down and read it all in one night. By telling the story through her eyes as a 5-9 year old we are swept up into the monumental evil that was the Khmer Rouge, Ankgar and Pol Pot. Just try to imagine the gut wrenching horror of hugging your father one last time as he is lead away to his execution, or the mind numbing pain upon discovering that your mother and baby sister have now also been exterminated by a government that claims to be your savior and friend. Then years later feel the elation of finding your older brothers, alive and well after being taken away. A few reviewers seem no doubt uncomfortable looking into the face of an evil that was once dissmissed as merely the natural product of Yankee Imperialism. One even going so far as to place blame on the author's own father for their horrible plight. An attitude easily juxtaposed with neo-nazis blaming the holocaust on Jews themselves. The vast majority of others however will be deeply touched by story of this little girl and the courage and determination she needs just to survive. I will be the first to say this is not an easy read. It is emotional, it is heart wrenching and it is terribly, terribly sad. But it is a book I will never ever forget. Written on January 10, 2006 Summary: Startling Just get it, you wont regret reading this. |
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| Release date | 2006-04-04 | 2005-04-01 | 2001-04 | 2002-02-19 | 1999-09-01 |
| Media | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback |
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| Number of pages | 288 | 288 | 330 | 384 | 356 |
| Ean | - | - | 9780393322101 | - | 9780312243357 |
| Book Isbn | - | - | 0393322106 | - | 0312243359 |
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