The Girl with Seven Names : Escape from North Korea

ISBN: 9780007554850
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Publisher,William Collins
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Format, Paperback
Weight, 250 g
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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.

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 – not once, but twice – first in China, then in South Korea. Strong, brave and eloquent, this memoir is a triumph of her remarkable spirit.

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nur syahadah
Motivation

Pada pendapat saya, buku ini mencerita seorang wanita muda bersendirian terhadap masyarakat yang ditindas, keseronokkan melarikan diri, dan pengetahuan yang diperoleh dari pengembaraannya, menjadikan pencarian pelbagai politik ini dalam geografi, pengalaman yang sangat menyenangkan. Bagi saya buku ini kisah keberanian, kepandaian dan komitmen terhadap kebebasan. Gambaran kehidupan di Korea Utara sangat menggembirakan hati saya.

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nur syahadah
Motivation

Pada pendapat saya, buku ini mencerita seorang wanita muda bersendirian terhadap masyarakat yang ditindas, keseronokkan melarikan diri, dan pengetahuan yang diperoleh dari pengembaraannya, menjadikan pencarian pelbagai politik ini dalam geografi, pengalaman yang sangat menyenangkan. Bagi saya buku ini kisah keberanian, kepandaian dan komitmen terhadap kebebasan. Gambaran kehidupan di Korea Utara sangat menggembirakan hati saya.

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Anis Syahira Mhd Yusof
Great book

This book is fantastic. You might go into it thinking it's about a young woman escaping North Korea in struggle of a better life, but it's so much more.

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NUR SYAHED JANNA BINTI TARMIZI
Strong

This book give me think, that my is gratefull more than her life. It is Hyeonseo. It is journey how she try escape from dictator country. How she survive with her life in danger. It is a true and real story because it has a video about this matter.

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Nur amira syuhada
The girl with seven names

This book tells the story of a woman who never gave up on getting out of North Korea until she change seven names to make sure that she save.. Excited to read her journey .. She is a brave person .. And many positive things we can get in this story .. Never give up in everything you do for better life..