The aquariums of Pyongyang : ten years in the North Korean gulag
Kang, Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968-2006
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Kang Chol-hwan grew up in North Korean labour camps and escaped to South Korea to document his personal life as a testimonial to the hardships and atrocities that still constitute the lives of several hundred thousand people living in the gulag today.
Main title:
The aquariums of Pyongyang : ten years in the North Korean gulag / Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot ; translated by Yair Reiner.
Edition:
[Rev. ed.].
Imprint:
London : Atlantic, 2006.
Collation:
xxiv, 238 p. : port. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed. of this translation: Oxford: Perseus, 2001.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781843544999 (pbk)
Dewey class:
951.93043092365.45095193B/KAN
Language:
EnglishFrench
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Subject:
Kang, Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968- -- Childhood and youthChild concentration camp inmates -- Korea (North) -- BiographyConcentration camps -- Korea (North)Political prisoners -- Korea (North) -- BiographyKorea (North) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryKorea (North) -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryBiography
BRN:
442053
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