{"id":41835,"date":"2017-02-15T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=41835"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:39:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:39:34","slug":"accusation-bandi-translated-deborah-smith-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/accusation-bandi-translated-deborah-smith-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Accusation by Bandi, translated by Deborah Smith [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41605\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/11\/Accusation-by-Bandi-on-BookDragon-via-Booklist-498x800.jpg\" alt=\"accusation-by-bandi-on-bookdragon-via-booklist\" width=\"498\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/11\/Accusation-by-Bandi-on-BookDragon-via-Booklist-498x800.jpg 498w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/11\/Accusation-by-Bandi-on-BookDragon-via-Booklist.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nInitially published in South Korea in 2014, <em>The Accusation<\/em> continues to make international history as the first literary work smuggled out of repressive North Korea, now headed for shelves around the world. Bandi \u2013 whose pseudonym is derived from firefly, an obvious nod to the insect\u2019s small light amid vast darkness \u2013 shockingly remains a prominent North Korean writer.<\/p>\n<p>None of his native readers, however, will ever have access to these seven illuminating stories that reveal desperate lives enduring terrifying day-to-day challenges.\u00a0Written between 1989 and 1995, they share a common, reverberating theme: that survival \u2013already threatened by starvation, betrayal, brutality \u2013 can hinge on details as absurdly trivial as a crate of rice seedlings, the timing of closed curtains, the placement of an elm tree, a travel pass.<\/p>\n<p>British translator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/londonkoreanist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deborah Smith<\/a> (whose rendering of Han Kang\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/vegetarian-han-kang-translated-deborah-smith-library-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Vegetarian<\/em><\/a> won <a href=\"http:\/\/themanbookerprize.com\/international\/news\/vegetarian-wins-man-booker-international-prize-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2016\u2019s Man Booker International Prize<\/a>) expertly delivers Bandi\u2019s subversive prose with nuanced grace. The afterword further explicates the manuscript\u2019s remarkable journey out, with an additional note from the South Korean activist who enabled the precarious north-south crossing. As Bandi\u2019s characters both fear and sling accusations, the title takes on piercing gravitas for readers: knowingly turning a blind eye to such inhumanity is not an option.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Accusation-Bandi\/pid=8555144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, February 15, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adults<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2014 (South Korea); 2017 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Initially published in South Korea in 2014, The Accusation continues to make international history as the first literary work smuggled out of repressive North Korea, now headed for shelves around the world. 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