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01 Feb / Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, translated by Yair Reiner [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

First-ever memoir available in English about the horrors of surviving and escaping the brutal Communist labor camps of closed, barren North Korea.

Review: “New and Notable,” aMagazine: Inside Asian America, February/March 2002

Readers: Adult

Published: 2001 (United States)

By SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Korean, Memoir, Nonfiction, North Korean, Repost, Translation Tags > aMagazine: Inside Asian America, Aquariums of Pyongyang, BookDragon, Civil rights, Death, Haves vs. have-nots, Historical, Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Politics, War, Yair Reiner

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