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Surveying “The Red Years”: making sense of Bandi

Questions linger about authenticity, but the samizdat poet paints a vivid picture of N. Korean life

"The Red Years" is available for purchase on Amazon here.

The manuscript was yellowing, frayed – so fragile, in fact, that Do Hee-yun thought it might crumble in his hands.

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