Beyond the Horizon: Five Years With the Khmer Rouge
by Laurence Picq
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Author: Laurence PicqEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1989-06
ISBN: 0312028717
Number of pages: 218
Publisher: St Martins Pr
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Book Review: A remarkable story told from a unique point of view.
Summary: 5 Stars
A French citizen marries a Khmer Rouge cadre in France, then follows him through China back to Cambodia after Pol Pot came to power. The only story like this to have yet been told, the author provides insight into the daily routine of fear and insecurity within the world of the Khmer Rouge. One scene describes Ieng Sary giving a speech during which he waved his copies of the "confessions" forced from the regime's "internal enemies" at an interrogation center later known to the world as S-21. Readers who want to know more about S-21 from the perspective one of the few surviving prisoners should read Vann Nath's "Cambodian Prison Portrait". David Chandler's "Voices from S-21" is the definitive work on S-21, the site where thousands of Khmer Rouge cadre were toruted and killed. "Beyond the Horizon" has been published in French, Khmer, and English, and thereby also serves as a great language learning tool for students of things Cambodian. Laurence Picq is indeed fortunate to have escaped both S-21 and the grasp of her twisted and paranoid husband, who also survives. An upcoming book by Richard Linnett, "The Eagle Mutiny", will tell the story of two Americans who died in their bizarre efforts to be accepted as members of the Cambodian revolution. "Beyond the Horizon" is simply remarkable, truth far stranger than any fiction.
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