p>b>Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the i>Scottish Herald /i>/b>br>br>b>'The beauty of the prose is in contrast with the horror anticipated by this superbly subtle narrative' Kapka Kassabova/b>br>br>In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French ethnologist Fran-ois Bizot is captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of 'American imperialism', he is chained and imprisoned. His captor, Douch - later responsible for tens of thousands of death