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The Girl With Seven Names A North Korean Defectorâ€™s Story

Hyeonseo Lee

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Binding: Paper Back

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Language: English

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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.She could not return, since rumours of her escape were spreading and she and her family could incur the punishments of the government authorities - involving imprisonment, torture and possible public execution.Hyeonseo instead remained in China and rapidly learned Chinese in an effort to adapt and survive. Twelve years and two lifetimes later, she would return to the North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit her mother and brother to South Korea, on one of the most arduous, costly and dangerous journeys imaginable.This is the unique story not only of Hyeonseo's escape from the darkness into the light but also of her coming of age,education and the resolve she found to rebuild her life, first in China, then in South Korea.

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Author	Hyeonseo Lee
Publisher	Harper Collins Publishers
Language	English
Binding Type	Paper Back
Non Fiction	Biographies & Autobiographies
ISBN13	9780008154509
SKU	BK 0033795