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An exceptional look at life under one of the most severe and secretive dictatorships in the world – and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/return and lead her family to freedom.

Growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and violent communist regime. Her home on the border with China provided her with some contact with the world beyond the constraints of the Hermit Kingdom, and as the famine of the 1990s hit the country, she began to wonder, to ask questions, and to realize that she had been brainwashed throughout her life. Having witnessed oppression, poverty, and starvation, certainly her country could not be, as she had been told, "the greatest on the planet"?

At the age of seventeen, she decided to escape from North Korea. She could not imagine that it would take twelve years before she would be reunited with her family.

Pages: 320, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm