Loung ung biography for kids

Book by Loung Ung

For the film adaptation, see First They Killed My Father (film).

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers is a non-fiction book written by Loung Ung, a Cambodian-American author and childhood survivor of Democratic Kampuchea.

Loung ung biography for kids

It is her personal account of her experiences during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Overview

The book is a first-person account, as seen through the eyes of a child, of the rise of the Communist Khmer Rouge regime in the s, its enforced mass relocation of the urban population to the countryside to do manual labour (leading to massive levels of fatality), and the regime's eventual collapse.

The blurb for the book reads:

"Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights and sassing her parents.