The Killing Fields

Riley, Chris; Niven, Douglas (Eds.)

ISBN 10: 094409239X / ISBN 13: 9780944092392

Published by Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM, 1996

About this Item

First edition, hardcover, has a lean to the binding, and mild wear to the spine ends and cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean, Very Good+ copy in a Very Good clear dust jacket, which is rubbed, and has light bumps to the spine ends and corners.

Seller Inventory # 202275

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Killing Fields
• Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 094409239X
• ISBN 13: 9780944092392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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About this title

Synopsis

Photographs of prisoners from the S-21 death camp, edited by Chris Riley and Douglas Niven, with memoires of Vann Nath and Sara Colm. Beautifully designed and printed book with 100 Sheet-fed Gravure Plates.

Reviews

The faces gazing from these pages are those of the soon-to-die, for these photos were taken in S^-21, an institution for the "interrogation" of accused "counterrevolutionaries" in Pol Pot's Cambodia. They show men, women, and children; the last are often shockingly young, and a few women appear with babies. The faces express fear, sadness, fatalism, gallantry in attempts to smile, and even wary anger. Usually, below the face a number is pinned to a shirt; you may find yourself looking hard at a bare-torsoed preadolescent to make sure the pin is taped on the skin rather than pierced, somehow bloodlessly, through it (that is how brutal these pictures are: they make sadism expectable). Of course, there is beauty in these faces and figures, too, which did not save them from revolutionary ideology. Of the 14,000 persons incarcerated in S^-21 between 1975 and 1979, David Chandler says in his afterword, only 7 came out alive. Ray Olson