| Not since Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness have I seen an author carry the reader into the unknown like Treston does in his account of a man's journey into North Korea. Full of the unknown, the unexpected, and the bizarre, Treston is able to weave a story of a man's desire to defect from a world of "corrupt capitalism" to a place of "socialistic
paradise." What the man finds is both intriguing and horrific. The reader is left wondering whether or not this is a true account of an actual man's journey because Treston claims to have been asked to bring this story to the world's eyes from the defector himself. | ||
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Plot & Themes Political/social activism Yes Plotlet: Ethnic/Regional/Religion Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes Main Character Gender - Male Profession/status: Ethnicity/Nationality Main Adversary Identity: - an organization Age: - long-lived adults Profession/status: How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 () Writing Style Sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - orgies - actual description of hetero sex Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog |
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