Loung Ung

Lucky Child

A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind

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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 circumst… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-201351-4
EAN: 9780062013514
Produktnummer: 29233642
Verlag: Harpercollins E-Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor

Loung Ung was the National Spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World,” a program of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for co-founding the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Ung lectures extensively, appears regularly in the media, and has made more than thirty trips back to Cambodia. She is also the author of Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind and LuLu in the Sky.