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Loung Ung
A moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl, and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot's brutal regimeNOW A NETFLIX FILM BY ANGELINA JOLIE.
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. While her beautiful mother worried that Loung was a troublemaker her beloved father knew Loung was a clever girl.
When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Ung's family fled their home and moved from village to village to hide their identity, their education, their former life of privilege. Eventually, the family dispersed in order to survive. Loung trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, while other siblings were sent to labor camps. As the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia, destroying the Khmer Rouge, Loung and her surviving siblings were slowly reunited.
Bolstered by the shocking bravery of one brother, the courage and sacrifices of the rest of her familyand sustained by her sister's gentle kindness amid brutalityLoung forged on to create for herself a bold new life. Harrowing yet hopeful, insightful and compelling, this story is truly unforgettable.
Fremdsprachige eBooks
HarperCollins
Englisch
288
2010-10-12
9780062036544
978-0-06-203654-4
