by Francois Bizot · FOLIO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070417650
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«Le Portail» is the memoir by François Bizot, published by Folio in paperback (439 pages, in French).
The author, from the École française d'Extrême-Orient, was captured by the Khmer Rouge in 1971 and spent three months in chains, interrogated by Douch, the future executioner. With the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, he served as interpreter for the Military Security Committee before the French authorities. A testimony of captivity and human contradictions in Cambodia.
The work belongs to the Folio collection (no. 3606) and the French edition includes a preface by John Le Carré.
Audience interested in the recent history of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge, and nonfiction memoirs.
François Bizot is a French anthropologist. While working as a conservationist in Cambodia, he was held captive by the Khmer Rouge for several months. He was released after being found innocent of spying charges, becoming the only Westerner to survive imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge.
