Kim's book is full of small observations that vividly evoke the paranoia and loneliness of a nation living in fear and in thrall to its 'Great Leaders'.Her portraits of her students are tender and heartbreaking, highlighting the enormity of what is at stake." "Remarkable.A deeply unsettling book, offering a rare and disturbing inside glimpse into the strangeness, brutality and claustrophobia of North Korea. 'My little soldiers were also little robots, ' she writes before departing, mourning not only that she must leave, but that they must stay." "Daring.Kim finds that paranoia is contagious - and can become chillingly routine. "Quasi-apocalyptic, but amazingly not speculative.I devoured for its wry and rare observations on that inexplicable land." "Chilling.reminds us that evil is not only banal it is also completely arbitrary."
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