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Escape from Camp 14 de Blaine Harden

Escape from Camp 14

Autor Blaine Harden
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mar 2013

În zorii secolului XXI, într-o lume care se consideră conectată și transparentă, există un ungher de întuneric unde timpul pare să fi încremenit în cele mai crunte forme de totalitarism. Escape from Camp 14 nu începe cu o alegere, ci cu o condamnare biologică: nașterea în interiorul sârmei ghimpate a Lagărului 14. Considerăm această lucrare a lui Blaine Harden nu doar o biografie, ci un documentar brutal despre descompunerea umanității în condiții de supraviețuire extremă. Reținem imaginea șocantă a unui copil care nu cunoaște afecțiunea, ci doar foamea, și care este dresat să își denunțe familia pentru o rație suplimentară de mâncare. Narativul amintește de The Aquariums of Pyongyang prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă și o geografie a terorii pe care regimul de la Phenian o neagă constant, în ciuda dovezilor satelitare. Spre deosebire de alte mărturii ale unor refugiați care au cunoscut viața civilă înainte de detenție, povestea lui Shin Dong-hyuk este unică deoarece el nu a avut niciun reper al libertății. Stilul lui Blaine Harden este clinic, dar cinematic, evitând orice urmă de melodramă pentru a lăsa faptele brute să vorbească. Autorul poziționează acest volum în continuarea preocupărilor sale pentru spațiul coreean, explorate și în King of Spies sau Harden, B: Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, unde analizează mecanismele puterii și ale trădării. Dacă în lucrările anterioare se concentra pe figuri cu autoritate sau spioni, aici coboară în cel mai adânc strat al suferinței umane, oferind o perspectivă fără precedent asupra unui sistem de lagăre care depășește în longevitate gulagul sovietic.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780143122913
ISBN-10: 0143122916
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: b/w maps; 8 pages b/w photos on insert stock
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin LLC US
Colecția Penguin Books

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care doresc să înțeleagă realitatea crudă a drepturilor omului în Coreea de Nord. Este o lectură despre reziliență și supraviețuire care depășește orice scenariu de ficțiune distopică. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată, susținută de hărți și ilustrații, despre singurul om care a învins sistemul celui mai închis stat din lume, născându-se și evadând dintr-un lagăr de exterminare.

Despre autor

Blaine Harden este un jurnalist american de prestigiu și autor, cunoscut pentru corespondențele sale din zone de conflict și regimuri autoritare. A lucrat pentru publicații de renume precum The Washington Post și The New York Times, specializându-se pe analize politice și biografii care explorează psihologia puterii. Expertiza sa asupra Peninsulei Coreene este reflectată în lucrări precum King of Spies și Harden, B: Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, unde investighează istoria complexă a diviziunii coreene. În Escape from Camp 14, el utilizează rigoarea jurnalismului de investigație pentru a aduce la lumină una dintre cele mai ascunse tragedii umanitare contemporane.

Descriere scurtă

The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped
 
North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk.
 
In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin’s shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence—he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his mother and brother.
 
The late “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il was recognized throughout the world, but his country remains sealed as his third son and chosen heir, Kim Jong Eun, consolidates power. Few foreigners are allowed in, and few North Koreans are able to leave. North Korea is hungry, bankrupt, and armed with nuclear weapons. It is also a human rights catastrophe. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people work as slaves in its political prison camps. These camps are clearly visible in satellite photographs, yet North Korea’s government denies they exist.
 
Harden’s harrowing narrative exposes this hidden dystopia, focusing on an extraordinary young man who came of age inside the highest security prison in the highest security state. Escape from Camp 14 offers an unequalled inside account of one of the world’s darkest nations. It is a tale of endurance and courage, survival and hope.

Recenzii

"Harden’s book, besides being a gripping story, unsparingly told, carries a freight of intelligence about this black hole of a country." —Bill Keller, The New York Times


“The central character in Blaine Harden's extraordinary new book Escape from Camp 14 reveals more in 200 pages about human darkness in the ghastliest corner of the world's cruelest dictatorship than a thousand textbooks ever could . . . Escape from Camp 14, the story of Shin's awakening, escape and new beginning, is a riveting, remarkable book that should be required reading in every high-school or college-civics class. Like "The Diary of Anne Frank" or Dith Pran's account of his flight from Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia, it's impossible to read this excruciatingly personal account of systemic monstrosities without fearing you might just swallow your own heart . . . Harden's wisdom as a writer shines on every page.” —The Seattle Times



"U.S. policymakers wonder what changes may arise after the recent death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, this gripping book should raise awareness of the brutality that underscores this strange land. Without interrupting the narrative, Harden skillfully weaves in details of North Korea's history, politics and society, providing context for Shin's plight.” —The Associated Press


“A book without parallel, Escape from Camp 14 is a riveting nightmare that bears witness to the worst inhumanity, an unbearable tragedy magnified by the fact that the horror continues at this very moment without an end in sight.” —Terry Hong, Christian Science Monitor


“A remarkable story, [Escape from Camp 14 ] is a searing account of one man’s incarceration and personal awakening in North Korea’s highest-security prison.” —The Wall Street Journal


“As an action story, the tale of Shin’s breakout and flight is pure The Great Escape, full of feats of desperate bravery and miraculous good luck. As a human story it is gut wrenching; if what he was made to endure, especially that he was forced to view his own family merely as competitors for food, was written in a movie script, you would think the writer was overreaching. But perhaps most important is the light the book shines on an under-discussed issue, an issue on which the West may one day be called into account for its inactivity.” —The Daily Beast


“A riveting new biography . . . If you want a singular perspective on what goes on inside the rogue regime, then you must read [this] story.  It’s a harrowing tale of endurance and courage, at times grim but ultimately life-affirming.” —CNN


“[Shin’s] tale becomes even more gripping after his unprecedented journey . . . after he realizes that he has been raised as something less than human. He gradually, haltingly—and, so far, with mixed success—sets out to remake himself as a moral, feeling human being.” —Fred Hiatt, The Washington Post


“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s Escape from Camp 14 . . . Harden masterfully allows us to know Shin, not as a giant but as a man, struggling to understand what was done to him and what he was forced to do to survive. By doing so, Escape from Camp 14 stands as a searing indictment of a depraved regime and a tribute to all those who cling to their humanity in the face of evil.”—Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La


"This is a story unlike any other . . . More so than any other book on North Korea, including my own, Escape from Camp 14 exposes the cruelty that is the underpinning of Kim Jong Il’s regime. Blaine Harden, a veteran foreign correspondent from The Washington Post, tells this story masterfully . . . The integrity of this book, shines through on every page.” —Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea


“In Escape from Camp 14, Harden chronicles Shin’s amazing journey, from his very first memory—a public execution he witnessed as a 4-year-old—to his work with human rights advocacy groups in South Korea and the United States . . . By retelling Shin’s against-all-odds exodus, Harden casts a harsh light on a moral embarrassment that has existed 12 times longer than the Nazi concentration camps.  Readers won’t be able to forget Shin’s boyish, emancipated smile—the new face of freedom trumping repression.” —Will Lizlo, Minneapolis Star-Tribune


“Blaine Harden of the Washington Post is an experienced reporter of other hellholes, such as the Congo, Serbia, and Ethiopia. These, he makes clear, are success stories compared to North Korea . . . Harden deserves a lot more than; ‘wow’ for this terrifying, grim and, at the very end, slightly hopeful story of a damaged man still alive only by chance, whose life, even in freedom, has been dreadful.” —Literary Review


“Harden tells a gripping story. Readers learn of Shin’s gradual discovery of the world at large, nonadversarial human relationships, literature, and hope—and the struggles ahead. A book that all adults should read.” —Library Journal (starred review)

“[A] chilling [and] remarkable story of deliverance from a hidden land.” —Kirkus Reviews

“With a protagonist born into a life of backbreaking labor, cutthroat rivalries, and a nearly complete absence of human affection, Harden’s book reads like a dystopian thriller. But this isn’t fiction—it’s the biography of Shin Dong-hyuk.” —Publishers Weekly

Notă biografică

Blaine Harden is a reporter for PBS's FRONTLINE and a contributor to the Economist, and has served as The Washington Post's bureau chief in East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. He is the author of Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent and A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. He lives in Seattle, Washington.