"Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Queen Noor talks frankly of the many challenges of her life as wife and partner to the monarch, providing both an intimate portrait of the late King Hussein and a moving account of their public role." - Publisher description
"North Korea is among the most opaque nations on earth, its regime noted for repression and for the personality cult of its father and son leaders, the late Kim Il Sung and his successor, Kim Jong Il. Kang Chol-hwan draws from firsthand experience in explaining the repression." (Publishers Weekly)
"In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945." (Amazon)
Desert exile: the uprooting of a Japanese American family by 
Leap of faith: memoirs of an unexpected life by 
The aquariums of Pyongyang: ten years in the North Korean gulag by 
Lost names: scenes from a Korean boyhood by