Author: Natascha Kampusch
Translator: Min-sook Park
Publisher: Eunhaengnamu
304 pages | 220*138mm
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About This Book
On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off a street
in Vienna by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she
was lying on a cold cellar floor, rolled up in a blanket. When she
emerged from captivity in 2006, having endured one of the longest
abductions in recent history, her childhood had gone.
In 3,096 Days Natascha tells her amazing story for the first time: her
difficult childhood, what exactly happened on that fateful morning when
she was on her way to school, her long imprisonment in a five-square-metre
dungeon, and the physical and mental abuse she suffered from her
abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil ? who committed suicide by throwing himself
under a train on the day she managed to make her escape.
3,096 Days is ultimately a story about the triumph of the human spirit.
It describes how, in a situation of almost unbearable hopeless, she
learned how to manipulate her captor. And how, against inconceivable
odds, she managed to escape with her spirit intact.
'Kampusch's mix of resilience, self-belief and teenage rebelliousness
frequently reminds me of Anne Frank. Like Anne, she refuses to be
defined by her traumatic experience. And again, like Anne, she seems
extraordinary in her own right...(her book) demands to be
read...Somewhere in this young woman's courageous and creative response
to a randonly brutal act, it is possible to glimpse all that is best and
most exhilarating about being human.' New Statesman
'3,096 Days is thoughtful, unflinching and remarkably devoid of
self-pity...Remarkable...as a testament to her indomitable spirit.'
Sunday Times
'3,096 Days is an excellent book...Kampusch takes us coolly through her
extraordinary experience without piling on grisly details or emotional
pressure. She doesn't ask for our sympathy...Instead she insists on
being free to do and speak as she pleases. She was deprived of this most
basic right for eight years, she explains and has no intention of
letting it happen again.' Mail on Sunday
'The power of Kampusch's narrative lies in her insistence on the
emotionally complex nature of her relationship with her kidnapper, and
her refusal to see herself purely as a victim, and him as evil.' Sunday
Telegraph
'Her autobiography is testament to the power of the imagination in the
face of a most terrifying predicament... Kampusch's grim tale would be
compelling whatever the skill of the writer, but her memoir manages to
be both a brave attempt to get across a message and a sad song about the
bleakness of many lives.'
--Observer
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