4.6
Biografier
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.
© 2015 William Collins (Ljudbok): 9780007595709
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 juli 2015
4.6
Biografier
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.
© 2015 William Collins (Ljudbok): 9780007595709
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 2 juli 2015
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Alice
1 feb. 2021
I litsened this through in one piece. You are on edge all the time and it's just impossible not to carry a big ball of anxciety in your chest as you feel like you are there with her. This amazing woman with many names must have been under more protection of angels than anyone else I've ever heard of. Humans are amazing, after all. And I long for the day that the north korean people realize their power united against the regime. Wow. This book. Read it! /Love from Sweden
Henrik
7 mars 2018
very intriguing book, couldn't just stop listing!
M
21 apr. 2024
A touching story. Well written and narrated. Worth a listen!
Gunnevi Patricia
2 nov. 2022
Vilken underbar bok. Svårt att sluta lyssna. Spännande och gripande.
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