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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Loung Ung’s comfortable childhood in Cambodia ended abruptly when Khmer Rouge forces marched into Phnom Penh, the capital.
Chapter 3: Ung’s family concealed their real identities to avoid the brutal persecution.
Chapter 4: Ung’s family started life as slave laborers beneath the Khmer Rouge’s tyranny.
Chapter 5: Ung’s eldest sister was the family’s first to be forcibly taken away by the Khmer Rouge.
Chapter 6: The family’s darkest fear came true when the regime ultimately discovered her parents’ real identities.
Chapter 7: Thanks to her mother’s painful choice, Ung survived the Khmer Rouge’s genocide.
Description
First They Killed My Father (2006) is Loung Ung’s memoir of her childhood experiences living under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia during the 1970s. She begins her story as the Khmer Rouge take power, forcing her family to flee the country’s capital, Phnom Penh, only to find themselves living as slave laborers, in constant fear that they would be personally targeted by the regime.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who’s seen the Oscar-winning film The Killings Fields
- History buffs
- Fans of autobiographies and memoirs