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Escape From Camp 14

One Man's Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West
Oct 22, 2014notthatjenn rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Escaping the inescapable North Korean prison camps is an incredible story, but this narrative suffers from a lack of pathos. I don't know if it's the writer who failed to convey the true horror or Shin Dong-hyuk who was unable or unwilling to provide the necessary details, but what should have been a nuclear bomb of a book fails to engage on the human level, which is what we need to understand such extraordinary depths of cruelty.