Dear Leader : poet, spy, escapee-- : a look inside North Korea
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First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.
"In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. "The General will now enter the room." Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear... As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life. Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expose; told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime"--
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Current holds
1 current hold with 1 total copy.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| Dansville Public Library | 951.9305 JIN (Text) Adult Nonfiction |
52117300382784 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aDear Leader : ‡bpoet, spy, escapee-- : a look inside North Korea / ‡cJang Jin-sung ; translated by Shirley Lee. |
| 250 | . | ‡aFirst 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition. | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡aNew York : ‡b37 Ink/Atria, ‡c2014. | |
| 300 | . | ‡axxii, 339 pages ; ‡c24 cm. | |
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| 500 | . | ‡aIncludes index. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aPart one: Dictator -- Part two: Fugitive -- Part three: Freedom. |
| 520 | . | ‡a"In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. "The General will now enter the room." Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear... As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life. Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expose; told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime"-- ‡cProvided by publisher. | |
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| 650 | 7. | ‡aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. ‡2bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7. | ‡aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. ‡2bisacsh | |
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