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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
The Accusation Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea Author:Bandi The Accusation received astonishing attention in hardcover and became a global publishing sensation, hailed as the first book of dissident fiction to emerge from North Korea. A collection of searing and heart-wrenching stories by an anonymous North Korean writer who is still living in the country, The Accusation was smuggled to South Korea to be... more » published there and abroad. This deeply moving and eye-opening literary work paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il?s leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to the people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships.
The characters of these mesmerizing stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former Communist war hero who is deeply disillusioned with the intrusion of the Party into everything he holds dear, to a husband and father who is denied a travel permit and sneaks onto a train in order to visit his critically ill mother. In one story, a mother attempts to feed her husband during the worst years of North Korea?s famine, and in another, a woman in a perilous situation meets the Dear Leader himself. As a whole, the stories offer a testimony of the horrors of the police state, the insidious power of the Party, and the broken ideology that underpins the crimes of the regime.
The Accusation is a vivid depiction of life in a dictatorship, and also a hopeful testament to the humanity and rich internal life that persists even in such inhumane conditions.« less