The Accusation: Forbidden Stories From Inside North Korea

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DESCRIPTION : In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regi me. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking window on this most secretive of countries.Bandi's profound, deeply moving, vividly characterised stories tell of ordinary men and women facing the terrible absurdity of daily life in North Korea: a factory supervisor caught between loyalty to an old friend and loyalty to the Party; a woman struggling to feed her husband through the great famine; the staunch Party man whose actor son reveals to him the absurd theatre of their reality; the mother raising her child in a world where the all-pervasive propaganda is the very stuff of childhood nightmare.The Accusation is a heartbreaking portrayal of the realities of life in North Korea. It is also a reminder that humanity can sustain hope even in the most desperate of circumstances - and that the courage of free thought has a power far beyond those seek to suppress it. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781781258712 BY (AUTHOR) Bandi, TRANSLATED BY Smith, Deborah PUBLISHER : Profile Books Ltd PUBLICATION DATE : March 02, 2017 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Serpent's Tail LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 216 mm x 135 mm WEIGHT : 313 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more