Accusation : Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea

from Beamis12

North Korea, a closed society, books and news have been filtering out in the last several years. In these seven stories, based on experiences and thoughts of the people as told to the author, we learn some of the harsh realities of living under this type of dictatorship, cut off from the rest of ...

from ParadisePorch

This is an amazing book - one the author has risked his life to have told. You need to read it. From the Afterword: The South Korean publication of this piece of fiction, which sharply criticizes and satirizes the North Korean regime, and which is written by a man who still lives and works under ...

from Rdra1962

This book of short stories is a compilation of work that was smuggled out of North Korea. It is the only one of it's kind, as other novels of life in NK were written by people after they had escaped. The writing is very good, tight and atmospheric. The overwhelming sense is one of fear and mistru...

from alanteder

Stories of Endurance Although the short stories in Bandi's "The Accusation" are presented as fiction, they probably give a sense of the real everyday life of average people in the recent past of North Korea. I'm thinking in comparison to say the more fantastical recent novel "The Orphan Master's ...

from Vicki_Weisfeld

Dubbed "the Solzhenitsyn of Pyongyang," Bandi is the pseudonym of a dissident North Korean author, and these are the first published stories written by a person still living under that repressive regime. The seven stories in this collection were written between 1989 and 1995, a particularly bleak...