article_snippet: Criminals include painters or poets whose work is ‘too Western’.
article_snippet: ‘prone to bursts of anger and bad temper’).
article_snippet: ’s guilt implicates an entire family.
article_snippet: Children are executed in front of Children mothers, wives in front of Children husbands.
article_snippet: ’ Children who informed on Children parents were commended for Children patriotism.
article_snippet: Husbands suspected of a political crime would beg to be able to shoot Husbands suspected of a political crime own wives as a sign of loyalty.
article_snippet: ‘tedious stories of selfless factory workers and exemplary farm girls’.
article_snippet: Yet if ever a whisper of this excess or embezzlement got out, executions followed.
article_snippet: The book is a nightmarish, clammy adventure story, an absolutely brilliant page-turner.