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This book is about Shin Dong-hyuk the only known person to have escaped Camp 14, the worst camp for political prisoners in North Korea. Being born in the camp, a child of a marriage arranged by guards, he has never eaten a legal meal other than gruel made from corn. The first chapter covers a very disturbing story where he turns his mother into the authorities because he overhears her talking about escaping.
— May 04, 2013 01:18AM
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Ten years after his mother's execution, Shin finds himself in a sewing factory, repairing broken sewing machines. At one point, he loses one finger, as a punishment from dropping and destroying one of the sewing machines that he had to fix. After meeting with a new prisoner named Park, Shin starts to learn that, outside the camp's fences, there is a different world, a world that was unknown for him.
— May 04, 2013 12:45PM
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Turning his mother in didn't make things better for Shin, but also, it didn't make him feel wrong about doing it. Born and raised in the camp, he thought that what he was doing is appropriate, and his mother and brother deserve to be executed, and the tortures that he's being put up happen because of his mother's plot to escape. Witnessing his mother's execution, he feels no grief or remorse.
— May 04, 2013 09:15AM
