- Biography, Cambodian Americans, Family, History
"When Loung Ung came to America in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee, she had already survived years of hunger, violence, and loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a story she told in her bestseller, First They Killed My Father.
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- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Loung Ung
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 268
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Australia, HarperCollins Publishers, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060733940
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