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REVIEWS: The Girl With Seven Names
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Kirkus
The Star
GoodReads
Book Companion
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
realize 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”? At age 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.
Characters: 45. Amazon rating: 5 stars. Genre: Non-Fiction.
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