false 3028 4373 0060856262 9780060856267 326 <![CDATA[First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165429858m/4373.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165429858s/4373.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4373.First_They_Killed_My_Father_A_Daughter_of_Cambodia_Remembers 4.20 1539 One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

]]> 3028 4.18 1799 375 2000 126352 0060733950 9780060733957 36 <![CDATA[Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171914170m/126352.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171914170s/126352.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126352.Lucky_Child_A_Daughter_of_Cambodia_Reunites_with_the_Sister_She_Left_Behind 4.03 180 After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.

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