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Without You, There Is No Us: My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite

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Description for Without You, There Is No Us: My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite paperback. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Life at the university is lonely. This book offers a glimpse of life inside the world's most inscrutable country. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JMG; BM; HBJF; HBLX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212.

It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime.

Life at the university is lonely and claustrophobic. Her letters are read by censors and she must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but also from ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rider
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846044830
SKU
9781846044830
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Suki Kim
Suki Kim was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and has travelled in North Korea as a journalist since 2002. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of the award-winning novel, The Interpreter, and the recipient of Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships.

Reviews for Without You, There Is No Us: My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite
Strangely terrifying...A beautifully written book that greatly expands the limited bounds of what we know about North Korea's ruling class
Barbara Demick, author of Nothing To Envy This superb work of investigative journalism is distinguished by its grave beauty and aching tenderness.
Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss A rare and revealing insight into the world ... Read more

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