Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home by Laura Ling and Lisa Ling
17 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Korean, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, North Korean
Headlines in 2009 put Laura Ling and Euna Lee on screens and print around the world. 'American journalists held captive in North Korea' was certainly not a common occurrence. While filming footage for a documentary on North Korean defectors in March 2009, three colleagues from...
An expansive, statistics-filled look at why 600,000 to a million North Koreans died in the mid-1990s during one of the worst famines of the 20th-century. In spite of so-called government reforms and the push for growing...
This enormous tome (800-plus pages) offers an expansive overview of a closed country and its incomprehensible leadership. With 13 years of research,...
How timely, indeed: Two erudite Korean American professors offer multiple viewpoints on North Korea and the potential for nuclear proliferation not-so-contained within.
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A remarkable, gracefully written work based on the true story of the authors’ parents’ early lives: their mother, the privileged daughter of a prominent minister in North Korea, and their...
The Making of a Hero
Helie Lee's Rescue Mission
When Helie Lee wrote her first book, the bestselling Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and...
First-ever memoir available in English about the horrors of surviving and escaping the brutal Communist labor camps of closed, barren North Korea.
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