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First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in by Loung Ung

18 reviews

madamelacy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense slow-paced

4.0

An emotionally difficult read, but also something that I felt that I needed to learn about before visiting Cambodia. Blows my mind that this happened in my lifetime. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

this book was a very hard thing to read. it includes almost every content warning you can imagine. I can't believe i did not learn about this in any of my schooling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

iguessthisisme's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault

trs01's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, and War

elisegmusic's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

First They Killed My Father is a memoir about the Cambodian Genocide written by a woman who was five years old when the Khmer Rouge forced her out of her city. 

 

I had read a memoir about the Cambodian Genocide last year, and these tales were achingly similar - the starvation, the disappearances, the brutal killings. This whole memoir is a big trigger warning. 

 

What is so poignant about this memoir is that all of this is happening around a girl who is so young. How does it affect a girl when you have to keep secrets your entire life? When your mother tells you she doesn’t want you around in order to save your life? When you watch a girl’s head be blown off when she was sitting right next to you? When you steal a ball of rice from an old woman to save your own life, even thought you might have killed her? 

 

This was heartbreaking and beautifully written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Murder

gaeliloveweiss's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

beccalove's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

nancydavis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I’ve been reading this book alongside my journey through Cambodia, during which I have visited sites such as the Killing Fields and S-21. 
Needless to say this is a very difficult yet extremely important read. 
I hope that this book, alongside the genocidal centres in Phnom Penh, will continue to be used as seminal resources to help ensure that crimes such as those committed during the Khmer Rouge regime never happen in any part of the world again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Genocide, Sexual assault, Violence, and War

Minor: Suicide

whatannikareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

a very important, hard read. definite warnings if you can't read about blood, genocide, murder, but i'm grateful that she didn't sugarcoat the atrocities committed on the cambodian people. we all know genocide and war is bad, but it's books like these that humanize the victims and give us vivid insight into what happened to them. how the effects of war stay with you forever. i hope ung's family members who were murdered have found peace; a book like this is a blessing that exists.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Heartbreaking, well-written, emotional, important. ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC CONFLICT OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS DECIDED TO IGNORE smh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail