Life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge is told in personal terms in this memoir by a woman who was only a child during those years of terror. Loung Ung recalls the loss of family and her everyday struggle for survival in a military camp for children.
In this lyrical sequel to "First They Killed My Father," Ung describes her school years in Vermont as a Cambodian refugee and her sister Chou's struggle to survive in Cambodia.
In "After They Killed Our Father", Loung Ung picks up where the bestselling "First They Killed My Father" left off, with the author escaping a devastated Cambodia in 1980 at the age of ten and flying to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately ...
In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and heart-warming, as it follows the parallel lives of Loung and her closest sister, Chou, during the 15 ...
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