What lurks behind the doors and beyond the borders of the world’s most shuttered societies? It’s a question that fascinates us, and the answers are elusive—which is exactly how the leadership of these well-guarded communities prefer it, whether they’re operating within the closed borders of North Korea or holding forth in the secretive inner circle […]
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told “the best on the planet”?
Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North Korea. She could not have imagined that it would be twelve years before she was reunited with her family.
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told “the best on the planet”?
Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North Korea. She could not have imagined that it would be twelve years before she was reunited with her family.
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780007554850 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Publication date: | 05/19/2016 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 320 |
Sales rank: | 18,812 |
Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d) |