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Title: The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Condition: New
Author: Pierre Rigoulot, Kang Chol-Hwan
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1843544997
EAN: 9781843544999
ISBN: 9781843544999
Edition: Main
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Genre: Biography
Topic: History, Law & Politics
Release Date: 09/02/2006
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 19mm
Item Weight: 248g
Release Year: 2006
Description:

'I beseech you to read this account' - Christopher Hitchens

A magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.

Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentration camp to escape the 'hermit kingdom' and tell his story to the world. This memoir reveals the human suffering in his camp, with its forced labour, frequent public executions and near-starvation rations. Kang eventually escaped to South Korea via China to give testimony to the hardships and atrocities that constitute the lives of the thousands of people still detained in the gulags today. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this story of one young man's personal suffering finally gives eye-witness proof to this neglected chapter of modern history.

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