The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

Oprah called Hyeonseo Lee's "the most riveting TED talk ever." From the publisher: "As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told 'the best on the planet'? She began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North Korea. This is the unique story not only of Hyeonseo's escape from the darkness into the light but also of her coming of age and education and the resolve she found to rebuild her life."