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One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Viking Adult
April 2012
On Sale: March 29, 2012
224 pages ISBN: 0670023329 EAN: 9780670023325 Kindle: B005GSZZ1A Hardcover / e-Book
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The shocking story of one of the few people born in a North
Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and
belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between
150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political
prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's
Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi
concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps
have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did. In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden
tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of
Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most
repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of
civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for
food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the
execution of his own family. Through Harden's harrowing
narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an
unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest
nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.
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