Harvill P

A novel of three damaged children suffer the regime of an experimental school where time is an instrument of oppression to be resisted and subverted.

In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French scholar Francois Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of "American imperialism", he was chained and imprisoned. His captor, Douch, later resp