Escape from Camp 14 : One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

from labfs39

How do you assess the truthfulness of an unreliable narrator? The journalist, Blaine Harden, struggled with this question during his interviews with the subject, Shin Dong-hyuk, the only survivor of Camp 14 in North Korea to escape to the West. Harden believes he was able to ferret out the real s...

from xieouyang

This book caught my attention after reading a book review in the Wall Street Journal. It tells the story of Shin In Geun, a young North Korean who escaped and now lives in the U.S. but travels to South Korea often. What made his story more compelling than others of North Korean defectors, is that...

from henaresf

Having read Barbara Deming's "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea," I was left with a less strong impression by "Escape from Camp 14," although I think "Escape" shows more vividly the lasting damage endured by those who have lived under the North Korean system. It's also astounding to ...

from Beamis12

This was another book, that while fascinating because I didn't have much knowledge of North Korea, but horrific as well. The subject matter was at times hard to read, to think that so many people are actually living like this is heartbreaking. Even those considered higher up in the hierarchy are ...

from xuesheng

Fascinating, but disturbing true story about Shin Dong-hyuk who was born to political prisoners inside North Korea's Camp 14, a camp reserved for those deemed among the most dangerous to the ruling Kims. Although Shin never found out his mother's crime, his father's "crime" was to be the brother ...