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If you have the edition of the book that has an author's interview, in mine it's page 453, the author describes how many events of the novel are based on real events from interviews with defectors...the removal of tatoos, the loudspeakers, the kidnappings etc. The prison camps are even more harrowing than he portrayed so he said he invented the blood harvesting to take the place of forced amputations, communual executions etc. If even a small percentage of the events are true, it's so disturbing to imagine that people actually live this way.
I certainly wish I had gotten that edition from the library. I will try to track it down to read the interview. Thanks!
You know the author won a Pulitzer Prize for this book. Wonderful. I hope he makes a bundle and comes out with another one soon.
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If you have the edition of the book that has an author's interview, in mine it's page 453, the author describes how many events of the novel are based on real events from interviews with defectors...the removal of tatoos, the loudspeakers, the kidnappings etc. The prison camps are even more harrowing than he portrayed so he said he invented the blood harvesting to take the place of forced amputations, communual executions etc. If even a small percentage of the events are true, it's so disturbing to imagine that people actually live this way.
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I certainly wish I had gotten that edition from the library. I will try to track it down to read the interview. Thanks!
You know the author won a Pulitzer Prize for this book. Wonderful. I hope he makes a bundle and comes out with another one soon.
