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Biografieën
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 (Luisterboek): 9780007595709
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 2 juli 2015
4.6
Biografieën
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 (Luisterboek): 9780007595709
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 2 juli 2015
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Fiona
25 okt 2016
Beautiful historic novel. A true story that taught me about North Korea, the suffering, the hope, the difficulty of changing a mind so consecutively filled with lies. This courageous lady made hard choices and said no to many things in order to say yes to others. Irreversible choices with many consequences
Desiree
25 aug 2023
Wat een verhaal.... Wat bizar weinig weten wij hiervan in het westen (The Netherlands) Ik wens jullie alle goeds!
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