The Aquariums of Pyongyang Book Club Ed: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan, Yair Reiner, Pierre Rigoulot

The Aquariums of Pyongyang Book Club Ed: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Kang Chol-Hwan, Yair Reiner, Pierre Rigoulot

272 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history memoir dark informative sad medium-paced
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After the division of North and South Korea, Kang's family returned to North Korea from Japan, where his grandparents had emigrated in the 1930s. His grandfather had amassed a fortune and his grandmother became a committed Communist. They were fir...

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