作者：HyeonseoLee/DavidJohn
出版社：WilliamCollins
副标题：ANorthKoreanDefector’sStory
出版年：2015-7-2
页数：320
定价：USD26.99
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780007554836
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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Hyeonseo Lee grew up in North Korea but escaped to China in 1997. In 2008, after more than 10 years there, she came to Seoul, South Korea, where she struggled to adjust to life in the bustling city. Recently graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, she has become a regular speaker on the international stage fostering human rights and awareness of the plight of North Koreans. She is an advocate for fellow refugees, even helping close relatives leave North Korea. Her TED talk has been viewed nearly 4 million times. She is married to her American husband Brian Gleason and currently lives in South Korea.
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18年底便已读完，当小说看的，作者写得不错
21年4月补：自己从未去过朝鲜，但对朝鲜糟糕的影响已经根深蒂固，看到twitter上一张朝鲜现代化街区的照片，很惊讶，不禁思考，这种印象是谁灌输的呢，证据呢。联想到最近的新疆事件，令人深思
20151002-20151027。13.1小时。作者在逃离过程中相对于其他“脱北者”是幸运很多的，遭遇苦难也比其他人少很多。
Unsurprisingly, Hyeonseo's personal account reads like blood-boiling crime fiction. Not only does this book manage to debunk the disgusting lies the North Korean regime has been imposing onto its peop…
十几年后，把妈妈和弟弟接出来，重新见面的那一段，很让人动容。真正开始描写脱北这条路，以及这其中的艰辛，还有脱北者不得不面对以及去适应外界社会的过程，实际是妈妈和弟弟脱北这条路。
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