
The Elimination
A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields
Other Press LLC
Published on 15. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-63542-558-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Originally published in French as "L'âelimination" by âEditions Grasset & Fasquelle."
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63542-558-1 (9781635425581)
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Rithy Pahn | Christophe Bataille
The Elimination
A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields
E-Book
04/2025
Other Press
€12.49
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Rithy Panh | Christophe Bataille
The Elimination
A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields
E-Book
02/2013
1st Edition
Other Press
€13.49
Available for download
Persons
Rithy Panh is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker best known for S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine. His documentary The Missing Picture, which was inspired by The Elimination, won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His recent documentaries include Graves Without a Name, which was submitted as the Cambodian entry for the 2018 Oscars, and Irradiated, which competed for the Golden Bear at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival.
Christophe Bataille is a French novelist. His works include the award-winning Annam, Hourmaster, and Absinthe. He has been an editor at Editions Grasset since 1997, writing by night. Since January 2007, he has supported Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Libraries Without Borders) a young non-governmental organization devoted to helping to provide help in educating citizens of developing countries.
John Cullen (1942–2021) is the translator of many books from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, including Siegfried Lenz’s The Turncoat, Juli Zeh’s Empty Hearts, Patrick Modiano’s Villa Triste, Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, and Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck.
Christophe Bataille is a French novelist. His works include the award-winning Annam, Hourmaster, and Absinthe. He has been an editor at Editions Grasset since 1997, writing by night. Since January 2007, he has supported Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Libraries Without Borders) a young non-governmental organization devoted to helping to provide help in educating citizens of developing countries.
John Cullen (1942–2021) is the translator of many books from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, including Siegfried Lenz’s The Turncoat, Juli Zeh’s Empty Hearts, Patrick Modiano’s Villa Triste, Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, and Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck.