Book description
Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of
five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea.
Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete
control district,' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life.
No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has
escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story.
A gripping, terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place, ESCAPE
FROM CAMP 14 will unlock, through Shin, a dark and secret nation, taking
readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go.
‘This is a story unlike any other’ Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to
Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Blaine Harden is a reporter for PBS Frontline and a contributor to
the Economist, based in Seattle, having completed a tour as the
Washington Post’s bureau chief in Tokyo. He is the prize-winning,
acclaimed author of two books: Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile
Continent (Norton, 1990) and A River Lost: The Life and Death of the
Columbia (Norton, 1996).
