This novel by Bandi, the pseudonym of a dissident North Korean writer who still lives in the country, was published in 2014. Bandi is a member of the country’s Korean Writers’ Alliance, and he decided to write this novel to disclose the suffering of people in his country under an oppressive political system which disregards human rights, especially during what was known as the March of Suffering in the 1980s and 1990s.
There are no expectations.