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François Bizot is the author of The Gate. He is an ethnologist who has spent the greater part of his career studying Buddhism. He is the director of studies at l’École Pratique des Hautes Études and holds the chair in Southeast Asian Buddhism at the Sorbonne. He lives in Paris.
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Facing the Torturer
Written by Francois Bizot
Translated by Charlotte Mandell and Antoine Andouard
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $16.95
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Written by Francois Bizot
Translated by Charlotte Mandell and Antoine Andouard
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $16.95
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Facing the Torturer
Written by Francois Bizot
Translated by Charlotte Mandell and Antoine Audouard
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $25.00
The author of the acclaimed memoir The Gate now gives us a mesmerizing account of his personal relationship with one of the most infamous torturers of the twentieth century, and of his transformative experience observing and participating in that man’s recent trial for war crimes.
In 1971, François Bizot was researching Khmer... Read more >
Written by Francois Bizot
Translated by Charlotte Mandell and Antoine Audouard
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $25.00
The author of the acclaimed memoir The Gate now gives us a mesmerizing account of his personal relationship with one of the most infamous torturers of the twentieth century, and of his transformative experience observing and participating in that man’s recent trial for war crimes.
In 1971, François Bizot was researching Khmer... Read more >
Facing the Torturer
Written by Francois Bizot
Translated by Charlotte Mandell and Antoine Audouard
Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.99
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Written by Francois Bizot
Translated by Charlotte Mandell and Antoine Audouard
Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.99
Read more >
The Gate
Written by Francois Bizot
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $16.00
“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... Read more >
Written by Francois Bizot
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $16.00
“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... Read more >
The Gate
Written by Francois Bizot
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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Written by Francois Bizot
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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