Hyeonseo Lee grew up in North Korea but escaped to China in 1997. In 2008, after more than 10 years there, she came to Seoul, South Korea, where she struggled to adjust to life in the bustling city. Recently graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, she has become a regular speaker on the international stage fostering human rights and awareness of the plight of North Koreans. She is an advocate for fellow refugees, even helping close relatives leave North Korea. Her TED talk has been viewed nearly 4 million times. She is married to her American husband Brian Gleason and currently lives in South Korea.
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 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.
She could not return, since rumours of her escape were spreading, and she and her family could incur the punishments of the government authorities – involving imprisonment, torture, and possible public execution. Hyeonseo instead remained in China and rapidly learned Chinese in an effort to adapt and survive. Twelve years and two lifetimes later, she would return to the North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit her mother and brother to South Korea, on one of the most arduous, costly and dangerous journeys imaginable.
This is the unique story not only of Hyeonseo’s escape from the darkness into the light, but also of her coming of age, education and the resolve she found to rebuild her life – not once, but twice – first in China, then in South Korea. Strong, brave and eloquent, this memoir is a triumph of her remarkable spirit.
北韩,一个熟悉却又陌生的名字,一个令人恐惧却又忍不住好奇的地方,在读完《拥有七个名字的女孩》之后,正慢慢向我打开一扇窗。 那是世界上最特别的国家之一,聚集着来自世界各地的目光。对领导人来讲,他是核危机;对老百姓来讲,他是金三胖。但是大家一直在或好奇,或嘲笑,...
评分 评分 评分被驯化的个体可以在特殊的体制里“幸福”终了,被开化的个体则会在对比与外部世界的强反差后反思、思变、反抗。而体制之森严冰冷让弱小的个体感受到内部世界无法反抗,最终促使她逃离祖国。命运就此改变。但留在体制内的无数个体怎么办?再想一想,主人公较之与大多数社会底层的...
Unsurprisingly, Hyeonseo's personal account reads like blood-boiling crime fiction. Not only does this book manage to debunk the disgusting lies the North Korean regime has been imposing onto its people and reveal its dark side to the world, it also tells us that life can change for the better if we try hard enough. 4 stars.
评分年度推荐,除一些专有名词以及朝鲜地名,相当通俗易懂。各位如果有什么想对作者说的,可以去Twitter fo @HyeonseoLeeNK。她的中文比英文好 O(∩_∩)O
评分这姑娘可真的是厉害啊……老挝那段看得人心都紧了
评分据说脱北者的一部分人都出版过各种书籍,买不到的情况下,朋友赠出。文笔一般,作者太聪明,传奇的经历恐怕其他脱北者不能一一效仿
评分Some people are born with freedom, while some would die for it...
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