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The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
David John
Hyeonseo Lee
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn 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.
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‘Stirring and brave … true, committed, unvarnished and honest. Lee has made her own life the keyhole to the present, inside and outside of North Korea’ Scotsman
‘Remarkable bravery fluently recounted’ Kirkus
‘Hyeonseo Lee brought the human consequences of global inaction on North Korea to the world’s doorstep … Against all odds she escaped, survived, and had the courage to speak out’
Samantha Power, US representative to the United Nations
‘I have spoken with countless numbers of defectors over the years. When I first met Hyeonseo Lee, the unflinching manner in which she told her story, although full of sadness and hurt, was inspirational. That is the story now written in this book … Every time she navigated treacherous terrain and overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles, she had to change her name to protect her new identity. She became the Girl with Seven Names … But one thing that she held on to was her humanity, ever stronger as she continuously sublimated her hardships into hope’
Jang Jin-sung, founder of New Focus International and author of Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee – A Look Inside North Korea
‘This is a powerful story of an escapee from North Korea. In the hallowed meeting rooms of the United Nations in New York, ambassadors from North Korea recently sought to shout down stories like this. But these voices will not be silenced. Eventually freedom will be restored. History will vindicate Hyeonseo Lee and those like her for the risks they ran so that their bodies and their minds could be free. And so that we could know the truth’
The Honourable Michael Kirby, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Abuses in North Korea, 2013–14
CONTENTS
COVER (#u84feca99-cb6a-5eea-9844-efa752c96d82)
TITLE PAGE (#u89817f43-2767-5f6a-b9ef-4fc9591198bc)
COPYRIGHT (#uae56cd7a-e8a0-5d48-b8bc-010771c11069)
PRAISE (#u9c193b29-78d1-5fc2-a724-3b3fba880ea0)
MAPS (#u1a4b917e-803b-5818-9a79-8d62364fed4e)
AUTHOR’S NOTE (#uaafdd47d-388f-5044-a6c7-6728dbacf7fb)
INTRODUCTION (#ua5495e29-df01-5624-82b8-60e0c423c1b0)
PROLOGUE (#u82fc01c6-1059-5d90-8495-bb8d063dcafb)
Part One: The Greatest Nation on Earth (#u24fa48c1-a54d-5a7a-9fae-1c0a7275dbce)
1. A train through the mountains (#ua8911f15-86b7-5a1a-8ae8-777155209438)
2. The city at the edge of the world (#u785f85e4-1971-5184-926f-fd46e3507419)
3. The eyes on the wall (#ude183852-5371-5f58-8571-302f832f7812)
4. The lady in black (#u32afcefe-89f0-5553-ab73-6c240a85728f)
5. The man beneath the bridge (#u2e89b6ea-8f05-586b-89a3-e001ea9a5cde)
6. The red shoes (#u2e7b5b3c-2b6d-5a70-a4cd-0c4acf754b97)
7. Boomtown (#u6b292f69-dd16-591d-8c95-8bfde3829c5e)
8. The secret photograph (#u069dd2f6-21b9-5d1d-b4a7-f1df9072c490)
9. To be a good communist (#u70d3ec6f-0279-541a-a28c-66f8b8c839d0)
10. ‘Rocky island’ (#ub133d707-9fad-5b29-8665-e3fe29cc4b77)
11. ‘The house is cursed’ (#ud9a8f10d-66ad-51e3-85b8-2ba8efd1c924)
12. Tragedy at the bridge (#u608b1cd8-8a76-5e96-a1f1-53368470def6)
13. Sunlight on dark water (#litres_trial_promo)
14. ‘The great heart has stopped beating’ (#litres_trial_promo)
15. Girlfriend of a hoodlum (#litres_trial_promo)
16. ‘By the time you read this, the five of us will no longer exist in this world’ (#litres_trial_promo)
17. The lights of Changbai (#litres_trial_promo)
18. Over the ice (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Two: To the Heart of the Dragon (#litres_trial_promo)
19. A Visit to Mr Ahn (#litres_trial_promo)
20. Home truths (#litres_trial_promo)
21. The suitor (#litres_trial_promo)
22. The wedding trap (#litres_trial_promo)
23. Shenyang girl (#litres_trial_promo)
24. Guilt call (#litres_trial_promo)
25. The men from the South (#litres_trial_promo)
26. Interrogation (#litres_trial_promo)
27. The plan (#litres_trial_promo)
28. The gang (#litres_trial_promo)
29. The comfort of moonlight (#litres_trial_promo)
30. The biggest, brashest city in Asia (#litres_trial_promo)
31. Career woman (#litres_trial_promo)
32. A connection to Hyesan (#litres_trial_promo)
33. The teddy-bear conversations (#litres_trial_promo)
34. The tormenting of Min-ho (#litres_trial_promo)
35. The love shock (#litres_trial_promo)
36. Destination Seoul (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Three: Journey into Darkness (#litres_trial_promo)
37. ‘Welcome to Korea’ (#litres_trial_promo)
38. The women (#litres_trial_promo)
39. House of Unity (#litres_trial_promo)
40. The learning race (#litres_trial_promo)
41. Waiting for (#litres_trial_promo)
42. A place of ghosts and wild dogs (#litres_trial_promo)
43. An impossible dilemma (#litres_trial_promo)
44. Journey into night (#litres_trial_promo)
45. Under a vast Asian sky (#litres_trial_promo)
46. Lost in Laos (#litres_trial_promo)
47. Whatever it takes (#litres_trial_promo)
48. The kindness of strangers (#litres_trial_promo)
49. Shuttle diplomacy (#litres_trial_promo)
50. Long wait for freedom (#litres_trial_promo)
51. A series of small miracles (#litres_trial_promo)
52. ‘I am prepared to die’ (#litres_trial_promo)
53. The beauty of a free mind (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (#litres_trial_promo)
PICTURE SECTION (#litres_trial_promo)
INDEX (#litres_trial_promo)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS (#litres_trial_promo)
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER (#litres_trial_promo)
