This is paradise! : my North Korean childhood

The Resource This is paradise! : my North Korean childhood
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This is paradise! : my North Korean childhood
Title remainder
my North Korean childhood
Statement of responsibility
Hyok Kang ; with Philippe Grangereau ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
Title variation
My North Korean childhood
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Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
Summary
Both 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, of the labour camps and mines, the punishment for 'anti-social behaviour', the secret watching of Beijing television, and the spies everywhere who help enforce the regime by denouncing any deviations from the rigidly patrolled norm. And when the famine comes so too 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 boy who likes to draw - some of his accomplished illustrations are included in the book - and of his migration to China as an asylum seeker
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Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
AU@
Dewey number
  • 325.21095193
  • 951.93043092
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
no index present
Language note
Translated from the French
LC call number
HV640.5.K67
LC item number
K3613 2007
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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