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The Gate (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Gate (Paperback, New Ed)
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List price R326
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Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Scottish Herald 'The
beauty of the prose is in contrast with the horror anticipated by
this superbly subtle narrative' Kapka Kassabova In 1971, on a
routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French
ethnologist Fran-ois Bizot is captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused
of being an agent of 'American imperialism', he is chained and
imprisoned. His captor, Douch - later responsible for tens of
thousands of deaths - interrogates 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. 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. Written
thirty years later, Fran-ois Bizot's memoir of his horrific
experiences in the 'killing fields' of Cambodia is, in the words of
John le Carr-, a 'contemporary classic'.
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