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Um. Wow. Short stories from an anonymous author, smuggled out of #NorthKorea. They tell what it‘s like to live under such a regime, where even your emotions (or those of your young children) must not step away from authority lines. Bandi is a state-authorised writer in N Korea, although he would never be permitted to write stories like these - this is powerful literature, painfully told. All round remarkable.