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S'està carregant… Star of the Northde D.B. John
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Sort of a spy/thriller. Unique in its plethora of info about the secretive NKorean regime. ( ) I enjoyed the first 80% of this book. I believed I would be giving this book 4-5 stars. As a look into a culture and regime that most Americans know little about it was excellent . As a mystery I followed along happily trying to solve where the clues led. The difficulty starts with the thriller aspects. Through most of the book itt is an edge of your seat thriller. The pacing is tight the suspense heart stopping , until the end. Then the plot becomes so outrageous and implausible as to ruin the book completely for this reader. Using three diverse, yet ultimately interconnected fictional narratives, Star of the North is a thriller, but also gives an inside look at some of the untold secrets of the Juche era of the North Korean regime. This was a favorite read for me this year, especially due to the research the author did and incorporated into the story, using true details obtained from escapees and defectors from North Korea. Very eye-opening. Desde el dÃa de 1998 en que su hermana gemela Soo-min desapareció en una playa de Corea del Sur, al parecer ahogada junto a su novio, Jenna no ha dejado de soñar con ella y se ha resistido a admitir su muerte. Hija de madre surcoreana y de padre afroamericano, es profesora de Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad de Georgetown. Un dÃa recibe la visita de Charles Fisk, miembro del Instituto de Estudios Estratégicos, que la invita a que se una a la CIA como experta en asuntos norcoreanos: el imprevisible régimen de Kim Jong-il ha aumentado su campaña de intimidaciones al vecino del sur, y por extensión a todo Occidente, al tiempo que se sospecha que su programa nuclear avanza a un ritmo peligrosamente rápido. Jenna acaba aceptando la propuesta, impulsada no tanto por su deseo de servir a su paÃs, sino por la oportunidad de conocer la suerte de su hermana, tras el descubrimiento asombroso de que Pyongyang llevó a cabo secuestros selectivos de personas. Convertida en una agente encubierta, Jenna deberá infiltrarse en Corea del Norte, poniendo su vida en peligro. D. B. John se adentra en el paÃs más inexpugnable del planeta a través de un thriller vibrante que resulta a su vez profundamente humano, con una trama cargada de tensión, sin dejar de mostrar los horrores de una dictadura basada en el culto al lÃder. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML:â??A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea....highly entertaining." â??The Washington Post A propulsive and ambitious thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely alliance Star of the North opens in 1998, when a Korean American teenager is kidnapped from a South Korean beach by North Korean operatives. Twelve years later, her brilliant twin sister, Jenna, is still searching for her, and ends up on the radar of the CIA. When evidence that her sister may still be alive in North Korea comes to light, Jenna will do anything possible to rescue herâ??including undertaking a daring mission into the heart of the regime. Her story is masterfully braided together with two other narrative threads. In one, a North Korean peasant woman finds a forbidden international aid balloon and uses the valuables inside to launch a dangerously lucrative black-market business. In the other, a high-ranking North Korean official discovers, to his horror, that he may be descended from a traitor, a fact that could mean his death if it is revealed. As the novel progresses, these narrative strands converge and connect in surprising ways, ultimately building to an explosive and unforgettabl No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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