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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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Hunter, Allan (13 September 2017). " 'First They Killed My Father': Toronto Review". ScreenDaily . Retrieved 19 September 2017. A riveting memoir. . . an important, moving work that those who have suffered cannot afford to forget and those who have been spared cannot afford to ignore.” — San Francisco Chronicle A young soldier whom Loung, Chou, and Pithy come across while gathering firewood. Having forgotten their canteen, Loung asks the soldier—via gestures, because he does not speak Khmer—if he has any water. The…

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No child should suffer what Loung does and she doesn't flinch from telling things that show her in a less than favourable light - but if she hadn't been an extremely tough five year old, she would never have survived in one of the few funny lines in the book, Loung says she doesn't know how her far softer sister did!Loung’s little sister and the youngest Ung sibling, Geak is just three years old at the beginning of the story. Her name means “jade,” and Loung describes her as a happy, adorable child who… But worse still was that there wasn’t enough food to go around. In just five months, two-thirds of the new workers had died of starvation or illness. As educated people from the city, they were considered the lowest class of all and they were treated horribly.

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The Editors (14 December 2017). "The Individual Top Tens of 2017". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC . Retrieved 15 December 2017. {{ cite web}}: |author1= has generic name ( help) This is not really a well-written book. The prose isn’t great; the pacing is all over the place. It’s been criticised for major historical inaccuracies. But it’s also told from the perspective of Loung Ung (អ៊ឹង លួង) as a child (she was ten years old when she fled Cambodia), and is one of many perspectives on the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. FOR ALL THOSE WHOM GOT TORTURED, INSULTED, PERSECUTED, RAPED AND SLAUGHTERED BY COMMUNISM THROUGHOUT THE NIGHTMARISH YEARS IN LIVING HELL ON EARTH

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No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,” Pa whispers softly.” The author's choice of using the present tense narration through her childhood eyes worked wonders for making you feel like you're a witness in the midst of the family's experiences. It's complex how I inadvertently ended up hearing a lot of stuff from different sides of politics. I still occasionally end up at dinner tables with people who think and speak openly in racist/sexist opinions around me. I am married to a man who was a conservative Republican (now, a conservative Democrat) who is eleven years older than me. He is of ‘the Greatest Generation.’ I am a ‘Baby Boomer.’

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