Книга: Suki Kim «Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite»

Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

Серия: "A New York Times Bestseller"

It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a prisonlike complex where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months, she will live under the watchful eye of the regime. Life at PUST is lonely and claustrophobic, especially for Suki, whose letters are read by censors and who must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but also from her colleagues. Still, she soon grows attached to her students, whose naivete and obedience to the regime she finds heartbreaking. Over time, she cautiously hints at the existence of a world beyond their own - at Harry Potter and ski vacations and, more dangerously, at electoral democracy and other ideas forbidden in a country where defectors...

Издательство: "Broadway" (2015)

Формат: 130x200, 320 стр.

ISBN: 978-0-307-72066-5

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