Books Quote by Euny Hong

“But in our camp, his story was everyone’s story, a single tale of dispossession, of being stripped to the bones of one’s humanity, of…

— Susan Abulhawa

“North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and…

— Max Brooks

“As contemporaries, Shin and Kim Jong Eun personify the antipodes of privilege and privation in North Korea, a nominally classless society where, in fact,…

— Blaine Harden

“They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood. What made them amazing wasn't that they had…

— Ransom Riggs

I surrendered all my privacy to write this book. It was so hard and so painful. I went through so much crazy stuff. But…

— Park Yeon-mi

“Savior, if of Zion’s city I through grace a member am; Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name Fading…

— John Newton

“Oddly enough, I never heard him complain about or blame the political system of North Korea. I finally realized that he’d never experienced true…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“The work’s persistent popularity in the modern era can be explained by its elevation of a neglected secondary son as a great hero. In…

— Heo Gyun

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so, we turn, among other things, to stories.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties .”

— David Baldacci

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books…

— Adam Johnson

“The peculiarity for which they’d been hunted was simply their Jewishness. They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a…

— Ransom Riggs