The Gate - Rilegato

Bizot, Francois

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ISBN 10: 1843430010 ISBN 13: 9781843430018

Casa editrice: Harvill Press, 2003

Riassunto

In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French scholar Fran-ois Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of "American imperialism", he was chained and imprisoned. His captor, Douch, later responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, interviewed him at length; after three months of torturous deliberation, during which his every word was weighed and his life hung in the balance, he was released. No other Western prisoner survived. Four years later, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. Fran-ois Bizot became the official intermediary between the ruthless conqueror and the terrified refugees behind the gate of the French embassy: a ringside seat to one of history's most appalling genocides. (2002-10-18)

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one of the finest accounts of the strange intimacy which can flourish between prisoner and interrogator, and should immediately be numbered among the great post-Second-World-War memoirs of incarceration... (Robert Macfarlane, London Evening Standard 2003-12-18)

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• Editore: Harvill Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1843430010
• ISBN 13: 9781843430018
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 286