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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins The Limited
ISBN-100007554834
ISBN-139780007554836
eBay Product ID (ePID)211862573
Product Key Features
Book TitleGirl with Seven Names : a North Korean Defector's Story
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicWomen, Sociology / General, History & Theory, Personal Memoirs, Political Freedom
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorHyeonseo Lee
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22.7 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal951.93043092
SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. 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.