Without you, there is no us : my time with the sons of North Korea's elite / Suki Kim.
2014
PE64.K45 A3 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Without you, there is no us : my time with the sons of North Korea's elite / Suki Kim.
Author
Kim, Suki, 1970- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780307720658 hardcover
0307720659 hardcover
9780307720665 paperback
0307720667 paperback
9780307720672 electronic book
0307720659 hardcover
9780307720665 paperback
0307720667 paperback
9780307720672 electronic book
Published
New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]
Language
English
Description
291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Call Number
PE64.K45 A3 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.603 B
Summary
"A ... memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign"--Amazon.com
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-- except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-- except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."
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