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Ministry of Truth: Kim Jong Ils North Korea

Ministry of Truth: Kim Jong Ils North Korea

by Christian Kracht

Published by Feral House

$22.95

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A rare photo-journalistic glimpse into "the first real postmodern country." Quotations from Kim Jong-Il's Art of Cinema are juxtaposed against the surreal landscape of this mysterious communist country. The result is "a totalitarian dream... the Democratic People's Republic of Korea could be a holographic projection... or it might be the setting of an unwritten novel by Phillip K. Dick." (from the intro by Christian Kracht). Or, to put it another way, totalitarianism sucks, but totalitarian architecture rules.