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The aquariums of Pyongyang : ten years in a North Korean gulag 2001
- Kang, Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968-, Political prisoners, Biography, Concentration camps
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780465011018
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First sentence
“In the 1960s, North Korea's disaster was not yet on the horizon.”
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