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Aquariums of Pyongyang
Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
by Pierre Rigoulot, Chol-hwan Kang
Sep 4, 2002
Paperback
US
$15.95
CAN
$24.95
UK
£8.99
ISBN: 9780465011025
ISBN-10: 0465011020
Published by
Basic Books
Description
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education." Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.
Reviews
"The Aquariums of Pyongyang is one of the most terrifying memoirs I have ever read. As the first such account to emerge from North Korea, it is destined to become a classic."
—
Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking
"A chilling testimony...[It] freezes the heart and seizes the soul."
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Kirkus Reviews
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