LEADER 00000nim 2200373Ka 4500 001 ocn900800014 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 140918s2014 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 9781101912768|qsound recording 037 D6A79331-808D-4212-BFE0-367213504108|bOverDrive, Inc. 040 TEFOD|beng|cTEFOD 100 1 Kim, Suki,|d1970- 245 10 Without you, there is no us :|bMy Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite /|cSuki Kim. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 New York :|bBooks on Tape,|c2014. 300 1 online resource. 306 083438 336 spoken word|bzzz|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 unspecified|bzu|2rdacarrier 500 Unabridged. 511 0 Read by Janet Song. 520 A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. 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 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, and where Suki has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months, she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the... 538 Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 241294 KB). 600 10 Kim, Suki, |d 1970- 650 0 Audiobooks.17Nonfiction.|2OverDrive 650 0 Education and state |z Korea (North). 650 0 Elite (Social sciences) |z Korea (North). 650 0 English teachers |z Korea (North)|vBiography. 651 0 Korea (North) |xPolitics and government |y2011- 651 0 Korea (North) |xSocial conditions |y21st century. 700 1 Song, Janet. 914 D6A79331-808D-4212-BFE0-367213504108
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