Books where the character endures great suffering/pain

Fiction or non-fiction.

Here’s some I’ve already ready:

**Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl**

‘*Man’s Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person’s life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity.*’

**A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea, Eunsun Kim**

‘*Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country…despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated*.

*By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun’s father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun too was in danger of starving. Finally, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them nine long years to complete. Before finally reaching South Korea and freedom, Eunsun and her family would live homeless, fall into the hands of Chinese human traffickers, survive a North Korean labor camp, and cross the deserts of Mongolia on foot.*’

**Born A Crime, Trevor Noah.**

‘*The book details Trevor Noah’s experiences growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa during the apartheid era. Noah’s parents were a white Swiss-German father and a black Xhosa mother; at the time of Trevor Noah’s birth in 1984, their interracial relationship was illegal*’

by NewbiePrinter