Juche 1-4 Box set
by Adria Carmichael
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GENRE: YA Dystopian
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BLURB:
Just when Areum - daughter of a privileged family in the totalitarian state of Choson (North
Korea) - thought she was free from her personal prison, her world collapses around her as her
family is taken away in the middle of the night to a hell-like camp in the mountains where people
who have strayed from the righteous path are brutally re-educated through blood, sweat, tears,
and starvation.
There she has to fight for survival together with the family she hates and is forced to re-evaluate
every aspect of her life until then: her deep resentment toward her twin sister; her view of her
father in the face of mounting evidence that he is a traitor with the blood of millions of fellow
countrymen on his hands; and even her love and affection for the Great General - the eternal
savior and protector of Choson, whom she had always considered her true father.
Note from the author:
Have you ever wondered what the world looks like when seen through an indoctrinated mind?
This is a topic that has intrigued me for as long as I can remember, so when I came up with the
idea to write a book many years ago, I decided to create it from the viewpoint of a victim of
indoctrination… which in the end became Areum (the protagonist of the story).
What I try to explore in this story is how deep the indoctrination of a 14-year old girl can run and
how much “reality” it can be exposed to before breaking… if it will break at all. As a comparison,
the defectors from North Korea who arrive in South Korea are isolated for three months in a de-
programming facility called Hanawon before they are allowed to join society where they go
through this process in a more controlled (and less brutal) way than Areum.
I hope you will enjoy this slightly different take on the dystopian genre!
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EXCERPT
Cranes sang songs of joy from the mountain tops.
Double rainbows appeared in the sky.
The aggressors from the west were defeated. The invaders from the east were expunged. The
traitors from the south were put at bay.
The people of Choson were finally free to create their own destiny, and so a hermit kingdom of
people’s rule rose from the ashes, and the doors to the enemies of the outside world were
closed, never to be opened again.
The world around them moved on. Years passed. Decades passed. Peace and prosperity
spread throughout the world, and nothing was heard from the secluded hermit paradise.
Then one day, people started emerging from its closed borders. The stories they brought with
them were, however, not of a paradise on earth. Instead, what they depicted were horrors so
vile and cruel that they almost exceeded human comprehension.
Little had the people of the kingdom known when they closed its doors to the outside world, that
the vilest beast of all was still lurking among their midst, and as soon as the curtains had been
drawn, the beast unleashed its reign of terror upon the people, not stopping until it had crushed
and enslaved every soul within its reach.
The beast now rules the kingdom from a throne of human misery and agony.
No one alive has ever encountered this beast, but everybody knows its name.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Adria Carmichael is a writer of dystopian fiction with a twist. When she is not devouring
dystopian and post-apocalyptic content in any format - books, movies, TV-series and
PlayStation games - she is crafting the epic and highly-addictive Juche saga, her 2020 debut
novel series that takes place in the brutal, totalitarian nation of Choson. When the limit of doom
and gloom is reached, a 10K run on a sunny day or binging a silly sitcom on a rainy day is her
go-to way to unwind.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20581191.Adria_Carmichael
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Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/adria-carmichael
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