Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father

A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New edition of this memoir of a childhood survivor of Pol Pot's brutal regime, coinciding with the sequel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781840185195
• ISBN-10: 1840185198
• Artikelnr.: 21983970

Autorenporträt

Loung Ung's debut memoir, First They Killed My Father, was an international bestseller. It is now being made into a film which will be co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt. Loung Ung is also the author of After They Killed Our Father: A refugee from the killing fields reunites with the sister she left behind. As an author, lecturer, and activist, she has dedicated twenty years to promoting equality, human rights, and justice in her native land and worldwide. She has lectured widely to schools, universities and corporations on Cambodia, child soldiers, women and war, and landmines. She currently lives in the US.

Rezensionen

"So sharp with pain that when I read it, the words plunged into me like a knife"