The release date for the English version of 'First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers' by
Loung Ung is Apr 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This gripping account of war atrocities and desperate deeds, the unsettling courage of a little girl and her family, and their victory of spirit comes from a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide during Pol Pot's government.
Up to the age of five, Loung Ung, one of seven children of a senior government official, had an affluent existence in the capital city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Then, when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army invaded the city in April 1975, Ung's family was forced to escape and finally scatter. Her brothers were transported to labor camps, Loung was trained as a child soldier in an orphanage, and those who escaped the atrocities would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge were eliminated.
A remarkable tale of a family that was rattled and broken but was miraculously kept together by strength and love in the face of unimaginable atrocities, Loung's narrative is both heartbreaking and uplifting.