Suki Kim
Forfatter af Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
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Suki Kim is a Korean American writer who was born in Seoul, South Korea. She emigrated to the United States with her family when she was 13, moving to New York. Kim is a naturalized American citizen who graduated from Barnard College with a BA in English and a minor in East Asian Literature. She vis mere was a 2006 Guggenheim fellow. Kim's debut novel, The Interpreter, was a murder mystery about a young Korean American woman, Suzy Park, living in New York City and searching for answers as to why her shopkeeper parents were murdered. The book won the PEN Beyond Margins Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award and was a finalist for a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. In 2014 her non-fiction book, Without You There Is No Us, made it to the New York Times bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- 1970
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- South Korea (birth)
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- Seoul, South Korea
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- New York, New York, USA
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- Barnard College (BA|English)
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I wish I hadn't left this on my shelves so long before reading it, but I am glad to have read it now. Reading it right after my Scientology binge was interesting, as there were a lot of unexpected parallels in the cult of personality and some of the mind/reality control. (Obviously, there are a lot of differences, too. But maybe only because LRH was never successful in taking over an entire country.)
An intriguing counterpart to all of the memoirs of defectors and refugees.… (mere)