The Gate - Brossura

Bizot, Francois

Brossura

ISBN 10: 037541293X ISBN 13: 9780375412936

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

Riassunto

An ethnologist describes his sojourn in rural Cambodia in 1971 as a scholar of Khmer pottery and Buddhism, his arrest and captivity by the Khmer Rouge as genocide swept through the country, his relationship with his captor, his role during the escape from the doomed capital of Phnom Penh, and other memories of the "killing fields" of Cambodia. 40,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“A harrowing narrative, worthy of a novel by Graham Greene or John le Carré... possesses the indelible power of a survivor’s testimony.”--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“This mesmeric book is much more than a survivor's story.... Bizot spills out his viscera, and we see him as whole and as candidly as anyone can expect from a memoirist.....Many passages burn with a lyricism that reminds one of books we call classic literature”
--Sidney H. Schanberg, LA Times Book Review

“There are scenes of such dramatic power and clarity – the frantic, nerve-rasping chaos as freedom lies just yards away– that The Gate could be not unfairly called, if not categorized as, a thriller.”
--Arthur Salm, San Diego Union Tribune

“A powerful, disturbing book.”
--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

“[A] fascinating book, to say the least, passages of The Gate are riveting, some scenes heartbreaking.”
--Michael J. Ybarra, Wall Street Journal
“An unnerving and miraculous mixture of beauty and horror.”
–Lucretia Stewart, Times Literary Supplement
           
“A tour de force . . . as gripping and as revealing as anything to have come from the time when this once beautiful country descended into hell.”
–Michael Binyon, The Times (London)
 
“Memorably astonishing . . . I gasped time and again during the . . . reading of a book that manages to combine a spare and classical literary elegance with the recounting of a tidal wave of appalling episodes . . . I have never read a book like this. It is deeply moving and ineffably terrible; every intelligent person who has a care about this world and its people should read it. Bizot has done humankind a great service.”
–Simon Winchester, The Sunday Times (London)

“Distinguished by its intense dignity, by its unexpected attention to beauty, and by a discretion which never shades into coyness, The Gate should immediately be numbered among the great post-Second World-War memoirs of incarceration.”
—Robert MacFarlane, The Guardian (London)
 
“Breathtaking . . . Heartbreaking and terrifying: a superb account of the madness of war, and of a people’s wholesale self-destruction.”
—Kirkus

"The Gate is a thrilling, exquisitely observed and terrifying account of the world trapped in the moral cul de sac of absolute revolution. It reads like a novel and it sears both the conscience and the heart. If you only ever read one book on Cambodia, make sure it is this one."  
—William Shawcross, The Sunday Telegraph (London)

L'autore:

François Bizot is an ethnologist who has spent the greater part of his career studying Buddhism. He is the Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes-études and holds the chair in Southeast Asian Buddhism at the Sorbonne. He lives in Paris.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 037541293X
• ISBN 13: 9780375412936
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 275