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| Original Title: | Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West |
| ISBN: | 0670023329 (ISBN13: 9780670023325) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | George W. Bush, Kim Jong-il, Kim Il-sung, Shin Donghyuk, Kim Jong-un, Lee Myung-bak, Kim Dae-jung |
| Setting: | North Korea(Korea, Democratic People's Republic of) |
| Literary Awards: | Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2013), Lincoln Award Nominee (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2012), Green Mountain Book Award Nominee (2015) |
Blaine Harden
Hardcover | Pages: 205 pages Rating: 4 | 54554 Users | 5190 Reviews
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| Title | : | Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West |
| Author | : | Blaine Harden |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 205 pages |
| Published | : | March 29th 2012 by Viking (first published 2012) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Politics. Cultural. Asia. Biography Memoir |
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A New York Times bestseller, 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.Rating Of Books Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Ratings: 4 From 54554 Users | 5190 ReviewsCrit Of Books Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
I am surprised to find this book at the last glance to the bookstore in Hong Kong International Airport. I know it is already in my To-Read section in Goodreads. This is the only book I finished reading within 12 hours while Im sitting next to beautiful clouds. Barbara Demicks Nothing to Envy introduces us how ordinary North Koreans escaped from DPRK, but Blaine Hardens Escape from Camp 14 tells us how a criminal who was born in Camp 14 completed the mission impossible. The world hasn't settledI'm not sure how one should rate a journalistic account of some of the worst attrocities happening at this very second in our world, but I'll give it three stars... a sort of neutral ground. The writing is definitely not groundbreaking - it is the story that matters. Shin was born and raised in Camp 14, one of the worst of the 18 that NK has. He, obviously, suffered from brainwashing, but it was not the kind of it where your head is filled with mush about the ideology of the ruling party, but
If this was not a biography, the rating would have been a little lower. But it's not. And for the non-fiction book it is, it's a pretty good read. A short one.Shin's story is an interesting one, and really sounds a lot like 1984 except written in the perspective of a child born into that society. But I don't want to comment on his life, but rather the style that this book was written in. A chapter or so into the story, the author makes a reference to themselves. And for me that's big don't do
When North Korea ever pops up in the news, the items usually covered are about a buffoon-like dictator, the absurd show of brainwashing (real or staged) of many of its people, and the threat of it getting a nuclear bomb. But the truth is far more serious. Because the grim reality is North Korea is the world's biggest prison and the inmates are the majority of its people. It is a slave state. And the world bears a responsibility for not doing anything to liberate the oppressed North Koreans.This
4 STARSTibetans have the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere, (the) Burmese have Aung San Suu Kyi, (the) Darfurians have Mia Farrow and George Clooney. North Koreans have no one like that. Actually North Koreans have imgur, Dennis Rodman and Ken Jeong in Stevie Wonder glasses.A couple of months back, Petra recommended this book to me after posting this link in Booklikes. Im the least literate person I know when it comes to world politics but human depravity is always fascinating even within the
This was another book, that while fascinating because I didn't have much knowledge of North Korea, but horrific as well. The subject matter was at times hard to read, to think that so many people are actually living like this is heartbreaking. Even those considered higher up in the hierarchy are not well off in comparison to the rest of the world, but they do have access to rice and blankets. The only family in any way profiting is the Kim dynasty, they of course have beautiful houses and
I am surprised to find this book at the last glance to the bookstore in Hong Kong International Airport. I know it is already in my To-Read section in Goodreads. This is the only book I finished reading within 12 hours while Im sitting next to beautiful clouds. Barbara Demicks Nothing to Envy introduces us how ordinary North Koreans escaped from DPRK, but Blaine Hardens Escape from Camp 14 tells us how a criminal who was born in Camp 14 completed the mission impossible. The world hasn't settled
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