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

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Blaine Harden

Escape from Camp 14

One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Blaine Harden

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English

Pan
01 April 2013

True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History

Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to 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. 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 illness that is usually triggered by hunger.

No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped.

No one except Shin.

This is his story.

By: Blaine Harden
Imprint: Pan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 196g
ISBN: 9780330519540
ISBN 10: 0330519549
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 April 2013
Recommended Age: 16
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Blaine Harden is a reporter for PBS Frontline and a contributor to the Economist, based in Seattle, having completed a tour as the Washington Post's bureau chief in Tokyo. He is the prize-winning, acclaimed author of two books: Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent (Norton, 1990) and A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Norton, 1996).

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

With a protagonist born into a life of backbreaking labor, cutthroat rivalries, and a nearly complete absence of human affection, Harden's book reads like a dystopian thriller. But this isn't fiction--it's the biography of Shin Dong-hyuk. -- Publishers Weekly