The Accusation

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Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781487002725

<p><strong>Authored by an anonymous writer and smuggled out of North Korea, <i>The Accusation</i> is the first work of fiction to come out of the country and a moving portrayal of life under a totalitarian regime.</strong></p><p>In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and published around the world, <i>The Accusation </i>provides a unique and shocking window into this most secretive of countries.</p><p>Bandi’s profound, deeply moving, vividly characterized stories tell of ordinary men and women facing the terrible absurdity of daily life in North Korea: a factory supervisor caught between loyalty to an old friend and loyalty to the Party; a woman struggling to feed her husband through the great famine; the staunch Party man whose actor son reveals to him the theatre that is their reality; the mother raising her child in a world where the all-pervasive propaganda is the very stuff of childhood nightmare.</p><p><i>The Accusation </i>is a heartbreaking portrayal of the realities of life in North Korea. It is also a reminder that humanity can sustain hope even in the most desperate of circumstances — and that the courage of free thought has a power far beyond those who seek to suppress it.</p>