The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Charles Robert Jenkins; Jim Frederick
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"This story by Robert Jenkins of his four decades in North Korea represents a rare opportunity to view life in one of the most reclusive societies in the world, offering unprecedented insights for both specialists and the general reader."--Robert Scalapino, University of California, Berkeley
"This is an incredible story of betrayal, love and the search for redemption. Robert Jenkins is a modern-day Robinson Crusoe, isolated from the outside world, and relying on his wits to survive in a nightmarish parody of a nation where nothing is as it seems. Living in constant fear and violence, Jenkins's efforts to grow food, dig a well, heat his home, generate electricity and to find companionship, trust and ultimately love, lend this rough and ready narrative an unexpected depth. Set within the bizarre and Orwellian surroundings of North Korea during the late 20th century, Jenkins's account is like no other I've ever read."--Jasper Becker, author of Rogue Regime: The Continuing Threat of North Korea
"Charles Jenkins' memoir is a genuinely unique account of the only American ever to live in North Korea for most of his life and return to write about it. Part biography, part eyewitness testimony, part apology, this book takes Mr. Jenkins from a childhood in the segregated South to a U.S. Army ruling the roost in South Korea in the 1950s, to a North Korea that saw him as a real-life Martian, but a valuable one for use in Cold War propaganda."--Bruce Cummings, Chairman of the History Department at the University of Chicago
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- Title The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
- Author Charles Robert Jenkins; Jim Frederick
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 238
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, California
- Date March 3, 2008
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780520253339 / 0520253337
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 6.06 x 0.78 in (21.49 x 15.39 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: East Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Jenkins, Charles Robert, Military deserters - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007033315
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2008, Page 132
- Library Journal, 02/15/2008, Page 119
- New Yorker (The), 03/24/2008, Page 83
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