The aquariums of Pyongyang : ten years in a North Korean gulag / Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot ; translated by Yair Reiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kang, Chor-hwan, 1968-

Contributor:

Rigoulot, Pierre.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political prisoners--Korea (North)--Biography.

Political prisoners.

Concentration camps--Korea (North).

Concentration camps.

Forced labor--Korea (North).

Forced labor.

Korea (North)--Social conditions.

Korea (North).

Kang, Chor-hwan, 1968-.

Kang, Chor-hwan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, c2001.

Summary:

Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.

Contents:

Contents; Preface for the Revised Edition; Introduction; 1 A Happy Childhood in Pyongyang; 2 Money and the Revolution Can Get Along; 3 Next Year in Pyongyang!; 4 In a Concentration Camp at the Age of Nine; 5 Work Group Number 10; 6 The Wild Boar: A Teacher Armed and Ready to Strike; 7 Death of a Black Champion; 8 Corn, Roaches, and Snake Brandy; 9 Death at Yodok; 10 The Much-Coveted Rabbits; 11 Madness Stalks the Prisoners; 12 Biweekly Criticism and Self-Criticism; 13 Public Executions and Postmortem Stonings; 14 Love at Yodok; 15 Sojourn in the Mountain

18 Ten Years in the Camp: Thank You, Kim Il-sung!Untitled; 18 The Camp Threatens Again; 19 Escape to China; 20 Small-Time Prostitution and Big-Time Smuggling in Dalian; 21 Arrival in South Korea; 22 Adapting to a Capitalist World; Epilogue Pursuing Aid for North Korea

Notes:

"Originally published in French: Les aquariums de Pyongyang.Paris : Robert Laffont, 2000.

ISBN:

1-283-07288-2

9786613072887

0-465-00471-7

OCLC:

712016018