The Girl in the Picture
- Authors
- Chong, Denise
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Tags
- history , biography , war
- ISBN
- 9780140280210
- Date
- 1999-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.52 MB
- Lang
- en
On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph - one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century - was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.
This book is the story of how that photograph came to be - and the story of what happened to that girl after the camera shutter closed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chong's portrait of Kim Phuc - who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCO spokesperson - is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese point-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday life in the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on all its participants.