"Девушка с семью именами" - это захватывающая история о жизни под одной из самых жестоких и тайных диктатур в мире, а также о страшной борьбе одной женщины за избежание попадания в плен и возвращение своей семьи к свободе.
В детстве Хенсо Ли выросла в Северной Корее, оказавшись одной из миллионов людей, попавших в ловушку тайного и жестокого коммунистического режима. Ее дом на границе с Китаем дал ей некоторое представление о мире за пределами эрмитажного королевства, и когда наступил голод в 1990-х годах, она начала задаваться вопросами и понимать, что ее всю жизнь манипулировали. Она стала свидетельницей репрессий, нищеты и голода, и ей стало ясно, что ее страна не может быть, как ей говорили, "лучшей на планете".
В возрасте семнадцати лет она решила бежать из Северной Кореи. Она не могла представить, что пройдет двенадцать лет, прежде чем она снова встретится со своей семьей.
HYEONSEO LEE'S NEW YORK TIMES 1 BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF THE NORTH KOREAN DICTATORSHIP Follow Lee in her incredible journey to freedom in the bloody wilderness of an authoritarian past.\nAt a young age, North Korean girl Lee was taken from her parents to a repressive gulag system that told her North Korea was the land of milk and honey—brutally contradictory to the conditions everyone knew firsthand: poverty, oppression, and outright torture and mass executions. Surrounded by cellular phones and Christian teachers, Lee came to believe that her ecological trigger point was imaginary, right alongside her mind-numbing life in the polyglot of North Korean culture. Despite relentless Party surveillance and all attempts to indoctrinate her, in 1986 Lee fled from the gulags with one goal in mind—freedom for her family members trapped inside.\nIn preparation for the civil war that was to come and keep them safe along the way, Lee meticulously planned her means of escape along with learning Chinese in order to master human traffic illegally across the border into China and then into South Korea via food factories and vending corner exchanges arranged by willing asylum seekers. Produced in the ruins of a disbanded middle school and Golden Bauhaus-inspired Free World Living Room, Lee's book lays bare the stark reality of communist Kim Jong Un's matrioshka of oppression and prosecution, vividly describing the experience of everyday life under his iron grip.\nA survival tool for those presently entrenched within the regime and an invaluable collection of information for concerned citizens around the globe, "The Girl with Seven Names" is book that will shock you to your core, while illuminating the buffeting journey toward political independence made by brave heroes everywhere.
Электронная Книга «The Girl with Seven Names» написана автором Hyeonseo Lee в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007554867
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn 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.
