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Escape from Camp 14 one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West

Escape from Camp 14 one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West

Harden, Blaine.
Large Print 2012

Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a "complete control district," a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. Inmates work 12- to 15-hour days in the camp -- mining coal, building dams, sewing military uniforms -- until they are executed, killed in work-related accidents, or die of...

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Sin, Tong-hyŏk, 1982-
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ISBN:
9781611734522
Edition:
Center Point large print edition
Description:
302 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
large print
Notes:
Originally published in New York by Viking in 2012
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
LCCN:
2012008828
Control Number:
873838
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