| Authors: |
Harden, Blaine
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Korea (North) -- Social conditions.
Political prisoners -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
Concentration camps -- Korea (North)
Forced labor -- Korea (North)
Shin, Dong-hyuk.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Viking, 2012. |
| Description: |
xvi, 205 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780670023325 0670023329 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents: |
Never heard the word "love" -- The boy who ate his mother's lunch -- School days -- The upper crust -- Mother tries to escape -- Mother tries to escape, version two -- This son of a bitch won't do -- The sun shines even on mouse holes -- Avoiding mother's eyes -- Reactionary son of a bitch -- Working man -- Napping on the farm -- Sewing and snitching -- Deciding not to snitch -- Preparing to run -- The fence -- Stealing -- Riding north -- The border -- China -- Asylum -- K'uredit k'adus -- South Koreans are not so interested -- U.S.A. |
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korea, read |
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| Summary: |
Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea. |