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Title: First They Killed My Father : A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung ISBN: 0-06-093138-8 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (110 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: there are not enough stars to rate this book
Comment: First they killed my father is about Loung, the author, who experienced genocide in Cambodia. In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge took over the Cambodian government and decided to create their own society. To create this society they killed, hurt, and corrupted many children, Ung describes these experiences and struggles.The word that Loung choice was really powerful.
The book is very overwhelming because of the events that occur thoughout the book. One of the events that captured me was when her sister, Keav was sent to the infirmary because she got really sick. When Ma, her mother went to visit her and saw that " They just let her lie there in her sickness and dirty sheets" (97) to die, it was really hard for Ma and the whole Ung family because they knew she wasn't going survive and there is nothing they can do.
I really enjoy reading this book and I would recommend it, even if it was hard to read sometimes because of the cruelty of the Khmer Rouge solider. This book wasn't only educational, but it is written in words created by genuine inner emotions, which is why it so powerful story because in a way it forces you to live and feel her experience. Therefore, I would love to recommend this book to my peers, adults, and other schools.
While reading this book 3 things to keep in mind are that she was really young while the Khmer Rouge were in power, she is really vulnerable because she is young, and in the camps there is no positive atmosphere. These 3 things affect her feelings of the way she sees the world and her self.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unable to put down this book
Comment: This horrifying real-life story is told in a simple way by Loung Ung. It's unbelievable that a little girl of 5 years old can endure so much and yet succeed and stand up to the horror of the Khmer Rouge goverment. There are not as many literatures on the horror of communist Pol Pot's dictatorship as they do on China.
Loung Ung's father was a government official before the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia. Ung's family had to flee from Phnom Penh as all previous government officials will be killed and the book showed how much of poverty and hunger that their family had to suffer. The way Ung described the way children and adults were killed was terrifying and how even if people were not killed by the army, they would die of hunger, food-poisoning, etc.
This book is very easy to understand as the author said it the way she saw it. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about Cambodia, their culture and the genocide that was commited by the Khmer Rouge.
Rating: 5
Summary: My new favorite book
Comment: This is an absolutely wonderful book. I wish that I hadn't read it yet so I could go back and read it again for the first time. It is a haunting recount of the transition of Cambodia's government by Pol Pot and the Khmer rouge and an amazing story of the people who were able to survive it. Fantastic writing that keeps you glued to every page. THis book really makes you realize the lack our hardship in your own life.
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Title: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him ISBN: 0393322106 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors by Dith Pran, Kim Depaul, Ben Kiernan ISBN: 0300078730 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison by David Chandler ISBN: 0520222474 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood, 1975-1980 (Vietnam War Era Classics Series) by Molyda Szymusiak, Linda Coverdale, Jane Hamilton-Merritt, Molyda Szymusiak ISBN: 025321291X Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.58 |
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Title: The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan ISBN: 0300096496 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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