Going back to my recent
comparison of true crime vs. fiction crime, the same can be said for most any
horrors humans have experienced. With
the hype of “The Hunger Games,” with “Escape from Camp 14” the readers are
jerked back into reality into the sobering, sickening events that occur in
today’s world. There is really no
comparision.
The author did an excellent
job in pointing out how this man’s story about his life since birth in a North
Korean camp can be scrutinized; this man changed his story several times. Skeptics can say he’s lying. He was raised in an environment to trust no
one, no even his own family. We readers
(vast majority of us) have not visited North Korea, and I haven’t seen field
reporters on location in that country, and their closed society is well
known. While none of us were there, it’s
up to us whether or not to believe this story.
I believe the author carefully sifted through the details until we as
the audience has as much truth as we can handle.
The first half of the book is
the back details the background of North Korea and the man’s life in the
camp. The second half is about his
escape and his difficult assimilation into Western society. The story is harrowing, disturbing, tragic,
but for this man, heartwarming. He did
make it out and shared with the world what an entire nation will not.
This book is superb, not for
the faint of heart, but highly recommended for anyone that understands true
events hit our hearts in a way fiction never can. Five stars!
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