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This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood…
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This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood (originale 2004; edizione 2007)

di Hyok Kang, Philippe Grangereau, Shaun Whiteside (Traduttore)

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This is Paradise! is a shocking and moving portrayal of scenes of every day life in North Korea, a secretive and brutal nation. Hyok Kang writes of the public executions, the labor camps and mines, the punishment for "anti-social behavior," the secret watching of Beijing television, and the spies everywhere who help enforce the regime. When the famine comes, so does death by starvation of friends and close ones, cannibalism, and political purge. All this is normal for Hyok Kang. After all, the propaganda North Koreans are fed by their government insists that compared to the rest of the world, this is paradise! Woven into this portrayal is the individual story of a young boy and his migration to China as an asylum seeker. This is his story of suffering and survival, and is a rare glimpse of a nation closed to the outside world.  … (altro)
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Titolo:This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood
Autori:Hyok Kang
Altri autori:Philippe Grangereau, Shaun Whiteside (Traduttore)
Info:Little, Brown Book Group (2007), Paperback, 224 pages
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“This is paradise!” is a very interesting but also shocking account of life in North Korea as witnessed by a young boy who finally manages to escape the regime through the Chinese border when he’s in his late teens/ early twenties. I would highly recommend the book to anybody interested in North Korea or in regimes in general. It’s a real eye opener when it comes to human rights abuse but also a great insight into North Korean educational system, labour market (if even we can call it that) as well as into social life and mentality of the locals. Be forewarned however that some parts of this short book are truly shocking even if you have some sort of idea of North Korean life and, due to this, it is not the easiest read, very grim and Orwell-like. ( )
  justine28 | Jun 18, 2013 |
The desciption of hunger is terrible. When the boy tell about the work his father do with frogs to sell to the chinese is incredible. It is hard to put it away. Well worth read. The end of the book is a pageturner as the beginning of it is a description of the NK life. ( )
  Girkner | Mar 3, 2010 |
Horrifying! A thirteen-year-old boy describes growing up in Communist North Korea. He flees with his family as starvation kills his classmates and neighbors, traveling through China, Vietnam, & Cambodia, before finally arriving in South Korea. Sadly, he finds a less than friendly welcome.
  colvin | Jan 23, 2009 |
As it says, this is an autobiography of a guy who grew up in North Korea and eventually fled the country with his parents. It's a little stilted-sounding in parts, but apparently that's because of the English version being a bad translation from the French version, which seems like a lot of babelfishing to me. But it's an interesting and sometimes horrifying read. And my knowledge about North Korea is now a lot greater! I put a couple of similar books on my Amazon wishlist in the hopes of finding one with nicer writing, but I'd still recommend this one. ( )
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Hyok Kangautore primariotutte le edizionicalcolato
Grangereau, PhilippeAutorautore principaletutte le edizioniconfermato
Whiteside, ShaunTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free. [Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle]
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They lived well in China, people were well fed, and some of them had fat, oily faces. Back in Korea, there was only one obese person in the whole country: Kim Jong-Il!
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This is Paradise! is a shocking and moving portrayal of scenes of every day life in North Korea, a secretive and brutal nation. Hyok Kang writes of the public executions, the labor camps and mines, the punishment for "anti-social behavior," the secret watching of Beijing television, and the spies everywhere who help enforce the regime. When the famine comes, so does death by starvation of friends and close ones, cannibalism, and political purge. All this is normal for Hyok Kang. After all, the propaganda North Koreans are fed by their government insists that compared to the rest of the world, this is paradise! Woven into this portrayal is the individual story of a young boy and his migration to China as an asylum seeker. This is his story of suffering and survival, and is a rare glimpse of a nation closed to the outside world.  

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