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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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Social conditions, Refugees, Economic conditions, Childhood and youth, Biography, Korea, history, Korea, social conditions, Korea, biographyPeople
Hyŏk Kang (1986-)Places
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This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood
July 5, 2007, Little, Brown Book Group
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in English
- New Ed edition
0349118655 9780349118659
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