North Korea Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/north-korea/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:11:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg North Korea Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/north-korea/ 32 32 38398750 The Last Exiles: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/the-last-exiles-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/the-last-exiles-a-novel/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2021 04:13:50 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15608 Jin and Suja come from opposite worlds. Jin is the son of a factory supervisor in one of the poorest provinces of North Korea while Suja is the daughter of a high-ranking member of the government’s media. When Jin earns a scholarship to the university in Pyongyang they meet and begin a relationship. Both are […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/04/the-last-exiles-a-novel/feed/ 2 15608 How I Became a North Korean https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/08/how-i-became-a-north-korean/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/08/how-i-became-a-north-korean/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2016 07:27:54 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6878 How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee is a lot like the Korean delicacy kimchi—a confounding blend of elements that, until it has fermented, can be confusing and difficult to appreciate. But, just like kimchi, by halfway through the novel the three disparate main characters have released their identities to make the story […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/08/how-i-became-a-north-korean/feed/ 8 6878 Darker: The Orphan Master’s Son https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/the-orphan-masters-son/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/the-orphan-masters-son/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 07:25:46 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1700 By its very nature dystopian fiction is dark but Pulitzer Prize winning The Orphan Master’s Son is not technically dystopian. It is set in North Korea, which exists (as we are all too aware recently) and yet the events and lives of the characters are fantastical in their danger, impoverishment, and deprivation. The protagonist is […]

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