A detailed and devastating account of the life lived by the ordinary citizens in the nightmare that is North Korea. Written from observation at first hand and from the testimony of defectors, it illustrates what happens when a criminal clique, ruling in the name of a perverted form of socialism, lead a country back to the dark ages, but cannot quite quench the human spirit. The book has deservedly won the Orange Prize.
(David Graham - bwl 58 Autumn 2010 ) |
