Aquariums of Pyongyang
Aquariums of Pyongyang
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From the age of nine, Kang Chol-Hwan grew up in North Korean labour camps and escaped to South Korea to document his personal life as a testimonial to the hardships and atrocities that still constitute the lives of several hundred thousand people living in the gulag today.
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Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan
The first personal documentation of life in the North Korean labor camps from a survivor and escapee of the communist regime's prisons. 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 Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780465011025 |
| ISBN 10 | 0465011020 |
| Title | Aquariums of Pyongyang |
| Author | Kang Chol Hwan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
| Year published | 2002-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 254 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |