In 1971 a young French ethnologist named Francois Bizot was taken
prisoner by forces of the Khmer Rouge who kept him chained in a
jungle camp for months before releasing him. Four years later Bizot
became the intermediary between the now victorious Khmer Rouge and
the occupants of the besieged French embassy in Phnom Penh,
eventually leading a desperate convoy of foreigners to safety
across the Thai border.
Out of those ordeals comes this transfixing book. At its center
lies the relationship between Bizot and his principal captor, a man
named Douch, who is today known as the most notorious of the Khmer
Rouge's torturers but who, for a while, was Bizot's protector and
friend. Written with the immediacy of a great novel, unsparing in
its understanding of evil, The Gate manages to be at once wrenching
and redemptive.
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