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3,096 DAYS
NATASCHA KAMPUSCH
‘I now feel strong enough to tell
the full story of my abduction’

In Natascha Kampusch’s autobiography she

will speak for the first time openly and in detail
about her abduction in 1998 by Wolfgang
Priklopil and the years she spent as his
prisoner. 3,096 DAYS will be published by
Penguin on Thursday 16th September 2010.

Her fate captivated the world: On 2nd

March 1998, on her way to school, ten-
year-old Natascha Kampusch was caught
and kidnapped by an unknown abductor in
a minivan. A search for the girl over many
months apparently turned up no clues as to
her whereabouts. Kept imprisoned for eight
and a half years, she finally managed to make
her escape on 23rd August 2006.

Four years on from this escape, Natascha Kampusch finally feels ready to tell her story in
detail for the first time. Her sensitive and articulate account begins with the story of her own
difficult childhood. She goes on to describe the day of the kidnap, her many days spent in
captivity, and the physical and psychological abuse she underwent at the hands of her captor.

It also describes how, in a situation of unbearable hopelessness, she learned to psychologically

manipulate her captor.

3,096 DAYS is the story of a fighting spirit who held on to her sanity
against inconceivable odds and managed to escape unbroken.

Natascha Kampusch was born on 17 February 1988 in Vienna and became victim, at the age
of ten, to what proved to be one of the longest abductions in recent history. In 2006 she gained
her freedom. On the day she escaped, her abductor Wolfgang Priklopil committed suicide by
throwing himself under a train. Since then Natascha has been trying to live a normal life. In
spring 2010, aged 22, she graduated from university.

16 September 2010 | RRP $30.00 | Paperback | PENGUIN BOOKS

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