Overworked novel leaves the reader in the dark
Francois Bizot, a French scholar and former Khmer Rouge prisoner, wrote his memoir, The Gate, out of a "bitterness" that knew “no limits". The Optimists, by Andrew Miller, Sceptre, €15.80.
The Optimists, by Andrew Miller, Sceptre, €15.80.
Francois Bizot, a French scholar and former Khmer Rouge prisoner, wrote his memoir, The Gate, out of a "bitterness" that knew “no limits".
Man, he says in the forward, is both “a slayer of monsters and forever a monster himself'‘.
Clem Glass, the central character in The Optimists, shares Bizot's despair. A photojournalist, he has seen too much: decapitated bodies, children sliced in two; the victims ...
