| Author/Contributor(s): | Kim, Hyun Woo |
| Publisher: | Arcade |
| Date: | 6/22/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
It is July 1994, and Pyongyang calls on Moscow’s legendary Lenin Lab—Russian specialists who have preserved Lenin’s body for seventy years—to make Kim Il Sung eternal. But in the sweltering capital, the Great Leader’s corpse begins to decay with inexplicable speed. Whispers of poisoning spread, a succession crisis looms, and officers plot against Kim’s son. Trapped inside a regime ruled by surveillance, ritual, and terror, the embalmers must preserve not only a body, but the image that sustains a nation.
Under the blazing sun, will the Russian embalmers be able to preserve the Great Leader’s image in flesh forever? What is the Great Leader’s image supposed to be, and what does it stand for? The Great Leader and His Eternal Life, set in the post-Soviet vacuum, is a darkly comic and deeply unsettling novel of history, power, life, and the iconography that interconnects them all.