A River in Darkness
One Man's Escape from North Korea
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A New York Times bestseller and Amazon Charts Most Read and Most Sold book.
A Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Memoir & Autobiography.
The harrowing true story of one man’s life in - and subsequent escape from - North Korea, one of the world’s most brutal totalitarian regimes.
Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian.
In this memoir translated from the original Japanese, Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life. A River in Darkness is not only a shocking portrait of life inside the country but a testament to the dignity - and indomitable nature - of the human spirit.
©2000 by Masaji Ishikawa. (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2017 by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- De: Sebastien Falletti, Eunsun Kim
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,717
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,452
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,451
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child, Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the countrywide famine escalated. By the time she was 11 years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun too was in danger of starving. Finally her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Much New Here, but Courage and Hope to Spare
- De Gillian en 03-25-16
De: Sebastien Falletti, y otros
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Under the Same Sky
- From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
- De: Joseph Kim, Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Raymond Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 142
A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tugs at the heart strings
- De R3v13w3r en 07-15-15
De: Joseph Kim, y otros
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Tears of the Desert
- A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
- De: Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 69
Halima Bashir was born into the Zaghawa tribe, whose customs have remained unchanged for centuries, in the remote western deserts of Sudan in the region of South Darfur. Halima's father named his daughter after the traditional medicine woman of the village, and she grew up in a happy and close-knit childhood environment. Her father became a wealthy man by his tribe's standards, so he could afford to send Halima to school and university. Halima went on to study medicine, and at 24 she returned to her tribe and began practicing as their first ever qualified doctor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A story that takes you there
- De Justicepirate en 05-22-17
De: Halima Bashir, y otros
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In Order to Live
- A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- De: Yeonmi Park
- Narrado por: Eji Kim
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 6,085
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,363
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5,358
In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea - and to freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow. What a story!
- De Jfm en 02-01-16
De: Yeonmi Park
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After the Roundup
- Escape and Survival in Hitler’s France
- De: Joseph Weismann
- Narrado por: J. Clark Allison
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 37
On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up 11-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp and brutally separated. A thousand children were left behind to wait for a later train. The French guards told the children that they would soon be reunited with their parents, but Joseph and his new friend, Joe Kogan, chose to risk everything in a daring escape attempt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A “must-listen” book
- De Jonathan R Scupin en 09-25-18
De: Joseph Weismann
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The Lightless Sky
- A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World
- De: Gulwali Passarlay
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen, Susan Duerden
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 43
In 2006, after his father was killed, Gulwali Passarlay was caught between the Taliban, who wanted to recruit him, and the Americans, who wanted to use him. To protect her son, Gulwali's mother sent him away. The search for safety would lead the 12-year-old across eight countries, from the mountains of Eastern Afghanistan through Iran and Europe to Britain. Over the course of 12 harrowing months, Gulwali endured imprisonment, hunger, cruelty, brutality, loneliness, and terror - and nearly drowned crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Face for Refugees
- De Daryl en 12-10-16
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A Thousand Miles to Freedom
- My Escape from North Korea
- De: Sebastien Falletti, Eunsun Kim
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,717
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,452
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,451
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child, Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the countrywide famine escalated. By the time she was 11 years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun too was in danger of starving. Finally her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Much New Here, but Courage and Hope to Spare
- De Gillian en 03-25-16
De: Sebastien Falletti, y otros
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- De: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrado por: Stephen Park
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 251
Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education". Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting!!
- De Iread en 11-12-20
De: Chol-hwan Kang, y otros
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Remember Us
- My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
- De: Vic Shayne, Martin Small
- Narrado por: Peter Altschuler
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 369
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 335
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 333
Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to find reason within them. Through the eyes of 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Martin Small, we learn that these priceless memories that are too painful to remember are also too painful to forget.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Tragic and Rich Life, With Lessons For All
- De still reading en 03-17-16
De: Vic Shayne, y otros
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The Boy on the Wooden Box
- De: Leon Leyson, Marilyn J. Harran - contributor
- Narrado por: Danny Burstein
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 789
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 685
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 686
This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Most notable is the lack of rancour, the lack of venom, and the abundance of dignity in Mr Leyson's telling. The Boy on the Wooden Box is a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you've ever read.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Schindler's List though a child's eyes
- De Blue en 10-16-13
De: Leon Leyson, y otros
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon
- One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
- De: Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 196
Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories, and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally crossing the river to China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story. Well read.
- De Jfm en 02-20-16
De: Lucia Jang, y otros
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Two Rings
- A Story of Love and War
- De: Millie Werber, Eve Keller
- Narrado por: Yelena Shmulenson, Eve Keller
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Trapped in Poland in 1941, like many Jews, Millie Werber went from the Radom Ghetto to slave labor in an armaments factory, survived Auschwitz, and toiled in a second factory until liberation came on April 1, 1945. She faced death many times but lived to marry a good man and fellow survivor. Meanwhile, she concealed a photograph in her closet and carried a secret in her heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a love story
- De Sbear en 11-19-18
De: Millie Werber, y otros
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 22 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,979
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,743
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,747
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular best seller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- De David en 12-15-12
De: Jung Chang
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Kaffir Boy
- The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- De: Mark Mathabane
- Narrado por: Mark Mathabane
- Duración: 18 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 413
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 361
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tragic yet we'll written
- De ARM en 10-07-16
De: Mark Mathabane
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Nothing to Envy
- Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- De: Barbara Demick
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,258
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,254
Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings to life what it means to be an average Korean citizen, living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The man who wants to be GOD
- De Gohar en 05-08-10
De: Barbara Demick
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Slave
- De: Mende Nazar, Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 157
Mende Nazer tells the story of her kidnap, at age 12, from an idyllic life with her family in a village in Sudan, and being sold into slavery. Trafficked to Europe and the London home of a diplomat, Nazer escaped - only to find she had to fight for asylum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking dose of reality
- De Sarah en 09-02-09
De: Mende Nazar, y otros
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My Mother's Secret
- Based on a True Holocaust Story
- De: J. L. Witterick
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 493
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 434
Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen, and a defecting German soldier in the attic - each party completely unknown to the others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WONDERFUL!!!
- De Robyn Collins en 02-29-16
De: J. L. Witterick
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Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
- De: Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West
- Narrado por: Ilyana Kadushin
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Meet Barbara Reichmann, once known as Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and ’30s, Gucia studies hard, makes friends, falls in love, and dreams of a bright future. Her world is turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and establish the first Jewish ghetto of World War II in her town of Piotrko´w Trybunalski.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Nordic Artisan en 07-09-18
De: Planaria Price, y otros
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To Live
- A Novel
- De: Yu Hua, Michael Berry
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
This searing novel, originally banned in China but later named one of that nation's most influential books, portrays one man's transformation from the spoiled son of a landlord to a kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family's fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, deeply penitent Fugui settles down to do the honest work of a farmer. Forced by the Nationalist Army to leave behind his family, he witnesses the horrors and privations of the Civil War, only to return years later to face a string of hardships brought on by the ravages of the Cultural Revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- De Phillip King en 05-30-18
De: Yu Hua, y otros
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- De: Suki Kim
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 935
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 816
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 816
Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST).
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4 out of 5 stars
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The King and I meets Mary Poppins
- De Michael en 02-22-15
De: Suki Kim
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Dear Leader
- Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look inside North Korea
- De: Jang Jin-sung
- Narrado por: Daniel York
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,017
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,015
As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding! A life-changing listen.
- De Gotta Tellya en 09-29-14
De: Jang Jin-sung
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Escape from Camp 14
- One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
- De: Blaine Harden
- Narrado por: Blaine Harden
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did. In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Direct honest story of events
- De josephine en 02-08-25
De: Blaine Harden
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon
- One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
- De: Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 196
Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories, and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally crossing the river to China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story. Well read.
- De Jfm en 02-20-16
De: Lucia Jang, y otros
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The Girl with Seven Names
- A North Korean Defector’s Story
- De: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
- Narrado por: Josie Dunn
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,559
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,261
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,246
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 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'?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Did not like narrator
- De Linda H. Andreae en 10-09-19
De: Hyeonseo Lee, y otros
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- De: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrado por: Stephen Park
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 251
Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education". Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting!!
- De Iread en 11-12-20
De: Chol-hwan Kang, y otros
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- De: Suki Kim
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 935
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 816
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 816
Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST).
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4 out of 5 stars
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The King and I meets Mary Poppins
- De Michael en 02-22-15
De: Suki Kim
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Dear Leader
- Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look inside North Korea
- De: Jang Jin-sung
- Narrado por: Daniel York
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,017
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,015
As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding! A life-changing listen.
- De Gotta Tellya en 09-29-14
De: Jang Jin-sung
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Escape from Camp 14
- One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
- De: Blaine Harden
- Narrado por: Blaine Harden
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did. In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Direct honest story of events
- De josephine en 02-08-25
De: Blaine Harden
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon
- One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
- De: Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 196
Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories, and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally crossing the river to China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story. Well read.
- De Jfm en 02-20-16
De: Lucia Jang, y otros
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The Girl with Seven Names
- A North Korean Defector’s Story
- De: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
- Narrado por: Josie Dunn
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,559
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,261
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,246
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 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'?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Did not like narrator
- De Linda H. Andreae en 10-09-19
De: Hyeonseo Lee, y otros
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- De: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrado por: Stephen Park
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 251
Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education". Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting!!
- De Iread en 11-12-20
De: Chol-hwan Kang, y otros
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North Korea Undercover
- Inside the World's Most Secret State
- De: John Sweeney
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 590
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 590
North Korea is like no other tyranny on Earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and Big Brother is always watching. It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Huge factories with no staff or electricity, hospitals with no patients, uniformed child soldiers, and the world-famous and eerily empty DMZ - the Demilitarized Zone, where North Korea ends and South Korea begins - are all framed by a relentless flow of regime propaganda from omnipresent loudspeakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line, and the gulag awaits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly listenable, humorous and enlightening
- De Kevin Stokes en 09-09-15
De: John Sweeney
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North Korea Confidential
- Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
- De: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 4 h y 45 m
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North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting portrait of North Korea marred by awful pronunciation
- De Amazon Customer en 08-03-21
De: Daniel Tudor, y otros
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The Hard Road Out
- One Woman’s Escape from North Korea
- De: Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai, Sarah Baldwin - translator
- Narrado por: Rosa Escoda
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship. By the age of 29, she had already witnessed a lifetime of suffering. Family members had died of starvation; her brother was beaten nearly to death by soldiers. Even smiling and laughing was discouraged.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The window to North Korea
- De Anonymous User en 02-25-25
De: Jihyun Park, y otros
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While Time Remains
- A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America
- De: Yeonmi Park
- Narrado por: Maureen Taylor
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This should be required reading. Amazing book
- De Amazon Customer en 02-15-23
De: Yeonmi Park
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The Last Girl
- My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
- De: Nadia Murad
- Narrado por: Ilyana Kadushin
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in Northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15, 2014, when Nadia was just 21 years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Heartbreaking Tale of Survival and Hope
- De Leahmgordon en 11-08-17
De: Nadia Murad
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Nothing to Envy
- Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- De: Barbara Demick
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings to life what it means to be an average Korean citizen, living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The man who wants to be GOD
- De Gohar en 05-08-10
De: Barbara Demick
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- De: Andrei Lankov
- Narrado por: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Broad and nuanced account of North Korea
- De Neuron en 07-29-15
De: Andrei Lankov
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In Order to Live
- A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- De: Yeonmi Park
- Narrado por: Eji Kim
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea - and to freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow. What a story!
- De Jfm en 02-01-16
De: Yeonmi Park
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Under the Same Sky
- From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
- De: Joseph Kim, Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Raymond Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tugs at the heart strings
- De R3v13w3r en 07-15-15
De: Joseph Kim, y otros
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Black Hawk Down
- De: Mark Bowden
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
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Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there - and how they fought their way out. Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S. Special Forces and puts you in the middle of the most intense firelight American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Of Military Writing...
- De Joshua en 11-06-16
De: Mark Bowden
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We Will Be Jaguars
- A Memoir of My People
- De: Mitch Anderson, Nemonte Nenquimo
- Narrado por: Christine Ann-Roche
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. She played barefoot in the forest until she was a teenager and left to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. But after Nemonte’s ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture, she listened. Nemonte returned to the forest and traditional ways of life and became one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that needed telling
- De just asking for some common sense en 01-17-25
De: Mitch Anderson, y otros
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- De: Alfred Lansing
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book I've had
- De Thomas Allen en 09-17-08
De: Alfred Lansing
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- J. Manuel Elias
- 07-31-18
Cruel reality of humanity.
Read it none stop, as a father I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to be in a situation like that. It's so sad. It served me to look at my life and remember that I have so much more than I deserve. I hope someday people that have gone through horrible things will be somehow compensated. recommended if you would like to get a lil perspective on life.
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- Carter Hooper
- 02-01-19
Riveting, Heartbreaking and Inspiring
When I rate this 5 stars, an "I Love It" box pops up. It should say "I'm 5-Star Horrified by This". Incredibly shocking to think people still have to un-live like this. What a story and what a man. Utmost respect for the author and his family. Read it and weep, though his unwavering hope for a better life is truly inspiring,
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- Little Willow
- 08-08-18
Haunting and humbling
Whether your first book on an NK defector's life or like me the 12th it makes you want to weep for what you have and what they never did.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- Cynthia R. Connolly
- 09-02-18
A River in Darkness
This was a sad book, a heart breaker. It makes you feel like you should do something but what. I feel so blessed to have the life I have.
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- Christopher
- 08-09-18
An amazing story of survival and family!
This book was full of gut wrenching moments and painful heartaches. Though everything this man went through was true you can't help but wish and wonder what life would be for him if he could have been with his family in Japan after escaping that dreadful place. Regardless I was relieved he and many others have escaped to freedom and can live their lives. This book really opened my eyes as to what goes on in North Korea then and even now. I have watched videos and read stories online, but nothing compared to Mr. Ishikawa's journey through hell and back. (Much respect to you Sir!)
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- Willm
- 08-07-18
A Man's Tale of Hell on Earth
An extraordinary tale of a man's struggles in life. A hell on Earth. An unfortunate tale of how many struggle through life today.
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- April
- 08-06-18
Truly horrifying.
Reminds you to appreciate the good things you have in life. Also to not trust Kim Jung Un!
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- David Lambert
- 10-09-18
Fantastic story
A very interesting look into the life of a person that has truly suffered. How the class system works in Japan and Korea. Snd how it brands a person for no reason at all but for where they are from.
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- Ma Asuncion Mercado
- 08-16-18
Can’t Stop
So riveting!
Its such a personal story on the NorthKorea no one knew about. Sad that such a situation may still exist.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-27-18
Overwhelming
The devastating cruelty of communist dictatorships is born by simple people. As a political refugee from communist Cuba I can relate to the anguish and desire to escape. I too left Cuba when I was 13. However I was lucky to leave with my family so the author's story is too me overwhelming.
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