Best known for his academt award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country's descent into hell. His was a world of war slaves and execution squads, of senseless brutality and mind-numbing torture; where families ceased to be and only a very special love could soar above the squalor, starvation and disease. An eyewitness account of the real killing fields by an extraordinary survivor, this book is a reminder of the horrors of war - and a testament to the enduring human spirit.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781841197937
Number of pages: 528
Weight: 364 g
Dimensions: 198 x 159 x 35 mm
Profound, personal, and proud . . . one of the more important autobiographies of our time. - Los Angeles Times
Ngor shows the awful price he paid to play his role so brilliantly. His well-crafted book makes an unimaginable horror come to life. - Washington Post Book World
A superb book . . . perhaps the best . . . so far . . . on what it is like . . . to live under the still inexplicable horrors of the Khmer Rouge. - Sunday Times
The best book on Cambodia ever published. - Chicago Tribune
A terrible and thrilling story. - Publishers Weekly
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