Without you, there is no us : my time with the sons of North Korea's elite / Suki Kim.
"A ... memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign"--Amazon.com
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-- except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."
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- ISBN: 0307720659
- ISBN: 0307720667
- ISBN: 9780307720658
- ISBN: 9780307720665
- Physical Description: 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 818.603 KIM (Text) | 37810435228076 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | 818.603 K (Text) | 39493107851521 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | 818.603 KIM (Text) | 22281500122590 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | 818.603 K (Text) | 31781061500409 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| East Asheville Library | 818.603 KIM (Text) | 0020510441908 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Enka-Candler Library | 818.603 KIM (Text) | 0020510454323 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Etowah Branch | KIM (Text) | 33258007476992 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Farmville Public Library | 818.603 KIM (Text) | 23900000008514 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | KIM (Text) | 33258007473908 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| High Point Library | 818.603 Kim (Text) | 30519009440804 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/12/2026 |
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"A ... memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign"--Amazon.com
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-- except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-- except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."
