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Suki Kim Without You, There Is No Us 2014 1st Paperback Edition
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subtitle
- Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- EAN
- 9780307720665
- ISBN
- 9780307720665
- Release Year
- 2015
- Publication Name
- Without You, There Is No Us
- Title
- Without You, There Is No Us
- ISBN-10
- 0307720667
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Release Date
- 10/13/2015
- Book Title
- Without You, there Is No Us : Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Item Length
- 7.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science, Education, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Human Rights, General, Asia / Korea, Educators, World / Asian
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307720667
ISBN-13
9780307720665
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202769379
Product Key Features
Book Title
Without You, there Is No Us : Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Human Rights, General, Asia / Korea, Educators, World / Asian
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Education, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-431337
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
818/.603 B
Synopsis
A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. 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, and where Suki has gone undercover as a missionary and a teacher. Over the next six months, she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them English, all under the watchful eye of the regime. Life at PUST is lonely and claustrophobic, especially for Suki, whose letters are read by censors and who must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but from her colleagues--evangelical Christian missionaries who don't know or choose to ignore that Suki doesn't share their faith. As the weeks pass, she is mystified by how easily her students lie, unnerved by their obedience to the regime. At the same time, they offer Suki tantalizing glimpses of their private selves--their boyish enthusiasm, their eagerness to please, the flashes of curiosity that have not yet been extinguished. She in turn begins to hint at the existence of a world beyond their own--at such exotic activities as surfing the Internet or traveling freely and, more dangerously, at electoral democracy and other ideas forbidden in a country where defectors risk torture and execution. But when Kim Jong-il dies, and the boys she has come to love appear devastated, she wonders whether the gulf between her world and theirs can ever be bridged. Without You, There Is No Us 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."
LC Classification Number
PE64.K45A3 2014
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