Research Catalog

Title

The elimination : A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields / Rithy Panh with Christophe Bataille ; translated by John Cullen.

Author

Rithy Panh

Publication

New York : Other Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bataille, Christophe

Description

271 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

• "From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor's autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. Rithy Panh was only eleven years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death. Thirty years later, after having become a respected filmmaker, Rithy Panh decides to question one of the men principally responsible for the genocide, Comrade Duch, who's neither an ordinary person nor a demon--he's an educated organizer, a slaughterer who talks, forgets, lies, explains, and works on his legacy. This confrontation unfolds into an exceptional narrative of human history and an examination of the nature of evil. The Elimination stands among the essential works that document the immense tragedies of the twentieth century, with Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and Elie Wiesel's Night"--
• "Rithy Panh was only eleven years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months and years that followed, his entire family was executed, starved, or worked to death. Thirty years later, after having become a respected filmmaker, Panh decides to question one of the men principally responsible for the genocide, Comrade Duch, who's neither an ordinary person nor a demon- he's an educated organizer, a slaughterer who talks, forgets, lies, explains, and works on his legacy. This confrontation unfolds into an exceptional narrative of human history and an examination of the nature of evil. The Elimination stands among the essential works that document the immense tragedies of the twentieth century, with Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and Elie Wiesel's Night"--

Uniform Title

Élimination. English

Alternative Title

Élimination.

Subject

• Rithy Panh
• Kang, Kech Ieu, 1942-
• Parti communiste du Kampuchea
• 1975-1979
• Political refugees > Cambodia > Biography
• Genocide survivors > Cambodia > Biography
• Political atrocities > Cambodia
• HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
• HISTORY / Military / General
• Cambodia > Politics and government > 1975-1979

Genre/Form

• novels.
• collective biographies.
• Fiction
• Biographies
• Novels
• Romans.
• Biographies.

Note

• "Originally published in French as L'élimination by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-271).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781590515587 (hardback)
• 1590515587 (hardback)
• 9781590515594 (ebook)
• 1590515595 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2012030140

OCLC

• 794359105
• SCSB-10559506

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library