the worlds there are to know

Only a tiny man you are, in a forest of tiny trees,
Or a man on a tiny mountain top, surrounded by tiny seas;
And none who dwell, if dwell they do, in lands beyond the sun,
Would shed a tear, if a flash and a smear
tells those who live in the outer sphere
That your tiny race is run.
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Lotus Reads reviews This is Paradise! - very clearly a disturbing story of a North Korean childhood. The post also has links to other books on North Korea.


TEV has some pointers on works by and about Hungarians on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.