Gate A Memoir

Name: Gate A Memoir
Price: 4.68 USD
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ISBN: 9780375727238

ISBN-10: 037572723X

ISBN-13: 9780375727238

Edition: 2002

Authors: Franï¿½ois Bizot, John Le Carrï¿½, Franï¿½ois Bizot

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.95" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English