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The accusation : forbidden stories from inside North Korea / Bandi ; [translated by Deborah Smith].

The accusation : forbidden stories from inside North Korea / Bandi ; [translated by Deborah Smith].
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ISBN 9781781257555 (paperback)
1781257558 (paperback)
Classification F PAND
Personal Name Pandi, 1950-
Title The accusation : forbidden stories from inside North Korea / Bandi ; [translated by Deborah Smith].
Edition Paperback edition.
Production & Copyright Details London : Serpent's Tail, 2018.
©2018
Physical Description vii, 247 pages ; 20 cm.
Content type text
Note Translation originally published: 2017.
Originally published as Gobal; [South] Korea : Chogabje, 2014.
Pandi, 1950- is the authorized name of the pseudonym Bandi, (Korean for "Firefly"; born 1950) used by the North Korean writer.
Translated from the Korean.
Summary Note 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 regime. 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.
Subject-Personal Name Pandi, -- 1950-Translations into English
Subject - Topical Term Dictatorship -- Korea (North)Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name Korea (North) -- Fiction Social life and customs
Korea (North) -- Fiction
Subject - Genre Short stories
Added Entry - Personal Name Smith, Deborah, 1987- translator.
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