This Is Paradise!
My North Korean Childhood
Kang, Hyok
Grangereau, Philippe
Whiteside, Shaun (TRN)
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BOOK SUMMARY
This is Paradise! is a shocking and moving portrayal of scenes of every day life in North Korea, a secretive and brutal nation. Hyok Kang writes of the public executions, the labor camps and mines, the punishment for "anti-social behavior," the secret wat
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This is Paradise! is a shocking and moving portrayal of scenes of every day life in North Korea, a secretive and brutal nation. Hyok Kang writes of the public executions, the labor camps and mines, the punishment for "anti-social behavior," the secret watching of Beijing television, and the spies everywhere who help enforce the regime. When the famine comes, so does death by starvation of friends and close ones, cannibalism, and political purge. All this is normal for Hyok Kang. After all, the propaganda North Koreans are fed by their government insists that compared to the rest of the world, this is paradise! Woven into this portrayal is the individual story of a young boy and his migration to China as an asylum seeker. This is his story of suffering and survival, and is a rare glimpse of a nation closed to the outside world.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0349118655
ISBN(13-digit): 9780349118659
Dewey Decimal: 951
Book Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 204
Paper Weight (lb): 1.00 lb
