The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
By Pierre Rigoulot, Kang Chol-Hwan, Yair Reiner (Translator)
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Book Description
The first personal documentation of life in the North Korean labor camps from a survivor and escapee of the communist regime's prisons.
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent oppositContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 238 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0465011047
- ISBN-13: 9780465011049
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Pub date: Aug 30, 2005
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Many years ago, after I had read the gamut of Russian writers from Lermontov through Pasternak and had embarked upon Solzhenitsyn, I set The Gulag Archipelago aside. I figured I knew all about it and it would just be depressing. But after it sat on m ... (read full critics)