The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future National Book Award for Fiction (2020) You'll be surprised by what

You'll be surprised by what — and who — it finds there…‘This is a fantastic novel…runs as precisely as clockwork

This is the story of seventeen-year-old Alex Woods - born to a clairvoyant mother and a phantom father

where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery

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The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future National Book Award for Fiction (2020) You'll be surprised by whatMuch discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about North Korea, the worlds most controversial and isolated country. In The Impossible State, Victor Cha pulls back the curtain, providing an unprecedented insight into North Koreas history, the rise of the Kim family dynasty, and the obsessive personality cult that surrounds them. He illuminates the repressive regimes complex economy and culture, its appalling record of human