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PublisherAtria Books
ISBN-101476766568
ISBN-139781476766560
eBay Product ID (ePID)201646012
Product Key Features
Edition37
Book TitleDear Leader : My Escape from North Korea
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Literary, Propaganda, World / Asian
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJang Jin-Sung
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight11.5 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-301323
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal951.9305/1092 B
SynopsisTHE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life. Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expos told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is an "impossibly dramatic story...one of the best depictions yet of North Korea's nightmare" ( Publishers Weekly )., THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life. Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing exposé told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is an "impossibly dramatic story...one of the best depictions yet of North Korea's nightmare" ( Publishers Weekly ).
LC Classification NumberDS935.7773.J36A3
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The Abyss
This book is not only an insightful account of the N Korean tyrannical regime, but serves as a warning of how easily seemingly open a democratic nations can slide into the abyss.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
