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First They Killed My Father
- A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Regina
- 2020-03-30
compelling
Couldn't put it down, had to listen from start to finish in one day. Having worked with Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees in the Philippines, I had a sense of affinity with the author - quite a compelling and remarkable story.
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- Alicia Beaton
- 2018-11-21
Beautiful and tragic
This book is well written and is a heart wrenching story. it's a must read!
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- Vlad Rybicka
- 2021-07-08
Definitely, it is a very powerful and well written story…
… which I can strongly relate to as a refugee 40 years ago escaped from one of East European communist hellhole. We have to speak out when and wherever the dogooders of all ideological spectrums start to preach their ideas to do “good for the people” by suppressing freedom to speak out. *** The narrator is the weakest part of the book. The book doesn’t need so many narrator’s overdone emotional outbursts. It is book’s entire story which is telling to a reader what was to lived and survive in Pol Pot’s nightmarish lunatic paradise.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-07-28
Powerful
This book was an extremely intense read. I was aware of the Khmer Rouge but to read about the experience from a first hand account was truly heartbreaking at times. Well written and the ability of Cambodians to perceiver and survive is truly inspiring.
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- Ugo
- 2022-03-04
Beautiful story filled with pain and love and truth
Well worth the read. Gives insight into true suffering and true hate and the love and life that can stand up to hate and overcome it. Beautiful story and beautiful people.
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- Anonymous User
- 2018-09-18
#Audible 1. it is a fantastic book. i highly recom
#Audible 1. This was a fantastic book. highly recommend it. Everyone should read it now.
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- Daniela
- 2021-06-13
Must read, so that people never forget.
I think it is important that people know this history that rarely gets much attention in schools, and that we listen to the experiences of survivors so that we may feel closer to them and understand that the tragedy happened to a fellow human with loved ones and a desire to simply live their life, just like anyone else.
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- Milan o.
- 2024-11-12
childlike story
I'm aware what happened in Cambodia, I have read quite good books about it.
I just wonder for whom or for what audience is this one.
Perhaps for children ?
Absolutely not for adults.
And the memory this little girl has.
Unbelievable, she remembers so many details that it makes this book absurd.
Just not realistic for 6 year old girl have such a good memory.
Just 1 star for story and 1 star, actually if possible 0 star for reading it.
Horor story presentation in child like way.
Unbelievable.
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