First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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From a childhood survivor of Cambodia’s brutal Pol Pot regime comes a narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving might of a tiny girl and her family tree, and their triumph of spirit. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-status government official. While her mother apprehensive that she 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 tree fled their home and stirred from village to village to hide their identity, their education and their ex- life of privilege. Eventually, the family tree dispersed in order to survive. Because Loung was resilient and determined, she was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, while her additional brothers and sisters were sent to labour camps. As the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia and ruined the Khmer Rouge, Loung and her extant siblings were finally reunited. Bolstered by the shocking bravery of one brother and the vision of the others, and sustained by her sister’s gentle kindness amid cruelty, Loung forged on to make for herself a new life.Amazon.com Review
Written in the present tense, First They Killed My Father will place you right in the midst of the action–action you’ll wish had never happened. It’s a tough read, but certainly a worthwhile one, and the leader’s personality and might shine through on every page. Covering the years from 1975 to 1979, the tale moves from the deaths of multiple family tree members to the forced separation of the survivors, leading ultimately to the reuniting of much of the family tree, followed by marriages and immigrations. The cruelty seems unending–beatings, starvation, attempted rape, mental cruelty–and yet the narrator (a young girl) never stops fighting for escape and survival. Sad and courageous, her life and the lives of her young siblings provide reasonably a powerful example of how war can so deeply affect children–especially a war in which they are trained to be an vital part of the armed forces. For anyone interested in Cambodia’s recent history, this book shares a valuable personal view of events. –Jill Lightner
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the book was about a girl and her family tree had to go out of there home.Because of a war was about to take place in there country. loung had a hard life in between her childhood. when i read the book the first time i didnt like it at all but when i read it again it was excellent. it was a hard book to know. i would say that othe rpeople should read the book from my point.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is an embarassment to Cambodians and insulting to our experience. As a Cambodian, I could see the many flaws and fabrications in the tale. I was very disappointed by this book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
As much as this book tries to described what happened in tragic Cambodia between overthrown monarch Prince Sihanouk and Khmer Rouge regime, there were many untrue facts regarding to Cambodian culture and traditions. In fact, majority of contents in this book were not written in Cambodian point of view, but more of western point of view. For example, the definition of “middle class” in her book seems as if they were more affluent than “middle class” Japanese, which was considered as major economic power during the 70’s. If Cambodia was more prosperous than Japan during that time, how would Khmer Rouge emmerge in the first place? The Khmer Rouge, as in many representative of lower class or proletarians including Bolsheviks and Maoist (CPP). Majority of Cambodians were living in near poverty period during the Siahnouk’s regime. If Cambodians were living as if they were like Ung’s family tree, Khmer Rouge wouldn’t exist at all. Overall, misrepresantation of Cambodian culture and society as well as political climate were reasonably evident in this book that Ung has failed to tell actual autobiography of herself, as a replacement for resorting to gaining sympathy among western nation with her fanastic fiction.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was just reading that a PBS special Bill Moyers did, called “EVIL”, failed to mention Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung or Pol Pot. So if, like Moyers, you despise truth, you’ll despise this book. Here you will read in riveting detail about an eight-year-ancient girl’s experiences in the “Killing Fields” of Cambodia as a victim and survivor. Moyers and his cronies on the Left don’t want you to know about this book. You see, to them, all the millions murdered under communists regimes were just the victims of extremes on the road to utoptia.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is the first book I ever read on the Khmer Rouge. The second was When Broken Glass Floats. When I compared the books (not of facts) When Broken Glass Floats was much more plain and Mrs. Ungs Book Was dull and slow.
If you read the negative reviews many Cambodians that have review the book are offended because she lied for her and her husbands gain.
Visit the website not more than before you waste your money on this exploitation book. I wish I HAD.
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Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5