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Without you, there is no us : my time with the sons of North Korea's elite Cover Image

Without you, there is no us : my time with the sons of North Korea's elite / Suki Kim.

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]

Without you, there's no us : (other title)

Kim, Suki, 1970- (author.).

Summary:

"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."