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Rebekah
Apr 28, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: genre-non-fiction, genre-biography, rating-4, genre-travel, genre-history, genre-politics, genre-writing-journalism, genre-cultural-asia, setting-korea, setting-north-korea
This book about the North Korean regime is absolutely fascinating and mind boggling.
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Crystal
Dec 30, 2011 rated it it was amazing
just fascinating to learn about all the suffering un this closed nation.
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Ellen Librarian
Apr 24, 2014 rated it really liked it
I got curious about the lives of North Koreans from reading The Orphan Master's Son and with all the news around The Interview. This book totally delivers. You get a pretty wide panorama of lives: a doctor, a teacher, a housewife, a street kid who all share lives of deprivation and hardship that is almost beyond imagination for us in the west. ...more
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Nancy
Aug 31, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2011-read, travel, far-east-asia
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Jul 06, 2013 rated it it was amazing
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Jul 08, 2021 rated it really liked it
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