20 February 2010
Book reviews: DPRK
LKL reports from the book launch of Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy – Real Lives in North Korea
It was a well-informed audience attending Barbara Demick’s book launch at the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday, many of whom had been to North Korea. As the strains of a Mozart Symphony wafted upstairs from the concert hall [...]
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17 February 2010
Book reviews: DPRK
Hwang Sun-won: The Descendants of Cain
Translated by Suh Ji-moon and Julie Pickering
East Gate / UNESCO, 1997. Originally published 1954
Novels set in post-liberation Korea, or during the Korean war, often make uncomfortable reading, particularly those set in the Soviet sphere of influence, and where the story is set in the countryside. The historical context of freeing [...]
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