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The Gate
The Gate
hardback
Published:
23 January, 2003
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781843430018 |
| ISBN10 | 1843430010 |
| Number Of Pages | 286 |
| Item Weight | 539 g |
| Product Dimensions | 158 x 30 x 236 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Harvill Press |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition |
Media Reviews
A harrowing narrative, worthy of a novel by Graham Greene or John le Carre... possesses the indelible power of a survivor's testimony. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times This mesmeric book is much more than a survivor's story.... Bizot spills out his viscera, and we see him as whole and as candidly as anyone can expect from a memoirist.....Many passages burn with a lyricism that reminds one of books we call classic literature --Sidney H. Schanberg, LA Times Book Review There are scenes of such dramatic power and clarity - the frantic, nerve-rasping chaos as freedom lies just yards away- that The Gate could be not unfairly called, if not categorized as, a thriller. --Arthur Salm, San Diego Union Tribune A powerful, disturbing book. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World [A] fascinating book, to say the least, passages of The Gate are riveting, some scenes heartbreaking. --Michael J. Ybarra, Wall Street Journal An unnerving and miraculous mixture of beauty and horror. -Lucretia Stewart, Times Literary Supplement A tour de force . . . as gripping and as revealing as anything to have come from the time when this once beautiful country descended into hell. -Michael Binyon, The Times (London) Memorably astonishing . . . I gasped time and again during the . . . reading of a book that manages to combine a spare and classical literary elegance with the recounting of a tidal wave of appalling episodes . . . I have never read a book like this. It is deeply moving and ineffably terrible; every intelligent person who has a care about this world and its people should read it. Bizot has done humankind a greatservice. -Simon Winchester, The Sunday Times (London) Distinguished by its intense dignity, by its unexpected attention to beauty, and by a discretion which never shades into coyness, The Gate should immediately be numbered among the great post-Second World-War memoirs of incarceration. --Robert MacFarlane, The Guardian (London) Breathtaking . . . Heartbreaking and terrifying: a superb account of the madness of war, and of a people's wholesale self-destruction. -- Kirkus The Gate is a thrilling, exquisitely observed and terrifying account of the world trapped in the moral cul de sac of absolute revolution. It reads like a novel and it sears both the conscience and the heart. If you only ever read one book on Cambodia, make sure it is this one. --William Shawcross, The Sunday Telegraph (London)
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Author's Bio
Francois Bizot is a French ethnologist who has spent the greater part of his career studying Buddhism. He is the Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes and holds the chair in South-East-Asian Buddhism at the Sorbonne.