{"product_id":"the-ministry-of-truth-christian-kracht-9781932595277","title":"The Ministry of Truth: Kim Jong-Il's North Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe few dozen tourists--and a few journalists--who come annually to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang are accompanied by guides and are only allowed to see what the regime blinders for their viewing. For the visitors, actors often represent pedestrians, and the consumer goods seen in stores are unavailable to the public at large. The statistics heaped upon the visitors are dubious at best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jong Il's People's Republic of North Korea is a gigantic installation, a simulation, a play. Eva Munz, Christian Kracht, and Lukas Nikol traveled to this land to take pictures of a country from which there are no pictures. What they show in \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e is a window view of the gigantic 3-D production of Kim Jong Il, who writes the nation's statistics and authors its film script. Because no accurate view is available of this total installation, the authors make the only one possible: They comment on their photos with quotations from a didactic book on the art of film written by the dictator--who not only collects wine and Mazda RX-7 sports cars, but also has an enormous film library.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eChristian Kracht\u003c\/b\u003e is a celebrated journalist and author and the editor of the German cultural magazine \u003ci\u003eDer Freund\u003c\/i\u003e. The photographs of \u003cb\u003eEva Munz\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eLukas Nikol\u003c\/b\u003e have had numerous international exhibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christian Kracht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1932595279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932595277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Feral House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.48h x 10.94w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/17\/2007","brand":"Christian Kracht","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075162370303,"sku":"9781932595277","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f79dfd7e-3213-4744-afeb-468a4e66271c.jpg?v=1685457962","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ministry-of-truth-christian-kracht-9781932595277","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}