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Escape from Camp 14 : one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West / Blaine Harden.

By: Harden, BlaineMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Viking, 2012Description: xvi, 205 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN: 9780670023325; 0670023329Other title: Escape from Camp FourteenSubject(s): Shin, Dong-hyuk | Political prisoners -- Korea (North) -- Biography | Concentration camps -- Korea (North) | Forced labor -- Korea (North) | Korea (North) -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 365/.45092 | B LOC classification: HV9815.6 | .H37 2012
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. -- No escape.
Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison--to freedom in South Korea.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-205).

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. -- No escape.

Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison--to freedom in South Korea.

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