The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
ADAM JOHNSONFor an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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