Susan Mcclelland: 6 books

'De sterren tussen zon en maan' van Lucia Jang (en co-auteur Susan McCelland) is het waargebeurde, eerste verhaal van een Noord-Koreaanse vrouw die strafkampen en mensenhandel overleefde. Lucia Jang (Sunhwa) werd in de jaren zeventig in een doorsnee Noord-Koreaans gezin geboren. Elke avond stofte...

An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive. Born in the 1970s, Lucia Jang grew up in a common, rural North Korean household—her parents worked hard, she bowed to a photo of Kim Il-Sung every night, and the family scraped by on rationed...

Nazanin Afshin-Jam was on top of the world. In 2006, she had just signed her first record deal and, after placing as first runner-up for Miss World, was a sought-after fashion model and icon within the Iranian dissident community. But one afternoon, she received an email that would change the course...

Lucia wächst in Nordkorea auf, wo ihre Familie dem allgegenwärtigen Hunger und dem staatlichen Terror trotzt. Doch als Lucia heiratet und ihr Mann ihren gemeinsamen Sohn verkauft, verliert sie den Boden unter den Füßen. Beherrscht von dem Gedanken, ihren Sohn wieder in die Arme zu schließen,...

Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging,...

**Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom.  ** Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal...