Description
Best known for his Academy Award–winning role as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, Haing Ngor's greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. In this memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, he gives 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.