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• catalog abstract ""A literary and historical tour de force: what one man saw and did in a land of pristine beauty on the eve of one of the twentieth century's most barbaric spectacles." "In 1971, Francois Bizot was a young French scholar of Khmer pottery and Buddhist ritual working in rural Cambodia. Now, more than thirty years later, he has summoned up the unbearable memory of that moment, letting us see as never before those years leading inexorably to genocide. Perfectly recalled, indelibly written, The Gate recounts the nightmare of Bizot's arrest and captivity on suspicion of being an American spy, and his nearly miraculous survival as the only Westerner ever to escape a Khmer Rouge prison. It is the story, as well, of Bizot's unlikely friendship with his captor, Douch - a figure today better remembered as a ruthless perpetrator of the then-looming terror, about which Bizot tried, without success, to warn his government." "Bizot's experience to that point would itself have merited report. But upon his return to Cambodia four years later, chance ordained a second remarkable act in this drama. As the sole individual fluent in both French and Khmer, Bizot found himself playing the intermediary in a surreal standoff when the Communist-backed guerillas now ascendant, laid siege to the French Embassy compound in Phnom Penh. Finally it would fall to Bizot to lead the desperate retreat of the colonial population: here he recounts how he helped the remaining Westerners - and any Cambodians he could - to escape the doomed capital."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Portail. English".
• catalog contributor b12787499.
• catalog contributor b12787500.
• catalog coverage "Cambodia History 1953-1975.".
• catalog coverage "Cambodia History 1975-1979.".
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description ""A literary and historical tour de force: what one man saw and did in a land of pristine beauty on the eve of one of the twentieth century's most barbaric spectacles." "In 1971, Francois Bizot was a young French scholar of Khmer pottery and Buddhist ritual working in rural Cambodia. Now, more than thirty years later, he has summoned up the unbearable memory of that moment, letting us see as never before those years leading inexorably to genocide. Perfectly recalled, indelibly written, The Gate recounts the nightmare of Bizot's arrest and captivity on suspicion of being an American spy, and his nearly miraculous survival as the only Westerner ever to escape a Khmer Rouge prison. It is the story, as well, of Bizot's unlikely friendship with his captor, Douch - a figure today better remembered as a ruthless perpetrator of the then-looming terror, about which Bizot tried, without success, to warn his government." "Bizot's experience to that point would itself have merited report. But upon his return to Cambodia four years later, chance ordained a second remarkable act in this drama. As the sole individual fluent in both French and Khmer, Bizot found himself playing the intermediary in a surreal standoff when the Communist-backed guerillas now ascendant, laid siege to the French Embassy compound in Phnom Penh. Finally it would fall to Bizot to lead the desperate retreat of the colonial population: here he recounts how he helped the remaining Westerners - and any Cambodians he could - to escape the doomed capital."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xv, 275 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Gate.".
• catalog identifier "037541293X (hc)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Gate.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng fre".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Knopf ; Distributed by Random House,".
• catalog relation "Gate.".
• catalog spatial "Cambodia History 1953-1975.".
• catalog spatial "Cambodia History 1975-1979.".
• catalog spatial "Cambodia.".
• catalog subject "959.604 21".
• catalog subject "Bizot, François.".
• catalog subject "Communism Cambodia.".
• catalog subject "DS554.8 .B6513 2003".
• catalog subject "Political atrocities Cambodia.".
• catalog title "Portail. English".
• catalog title "The gate / François Bizot ; translated from the French by Euan Cameron ; with a foreword by John Le Carré.".
• catalog type "text".