Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Note |
"A memoir"--Jacket. |
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 |
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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." |
Subject |
Kim, Suki, 1970-
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English teachers -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
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Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 2011-
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Korea (North) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Korea (North)
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Education and state -- Korea (North)
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ISBN |
0307720659 (hardcover) |
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9780307720658 (hardcover) |
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0307720667 (paperback) |
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9780307720665 (paperback) |
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9780307720672 (ebook) |
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