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  • Published: 16 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780670919994
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99

3,096 Days




I now feel strong enough to tell the full story of my abduction

On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she found herself in a dark cellar, wrapped in a blanket. When she emerged eight years later, her childhood had gone.
In 3,096 Days Natascha tells her incredible story for the first time: her difficult childhood, what exactly happened on the day of her abduction, her imprisonment in a five-square-metre dungeon, and the mental and physical abuse she suffered from her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil.
3,096 Days is ultimately a story about the triumph of the human spirit. It describes how, in a situation of almost unbearable hopelessness, she slowly learned how to manipulate her captor. And how, against inconceivable odds, she managed to escape unbroken.

  • Published: 16 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780670919994
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99

Praise for 3,096 Days

A brilliantly insightful dissection of her years in captivity

Jon Ronson, Guardian

An excellent book

Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday

Thoughtful, unflinching and remarkably devoid of self-pity... Remarkable - not just for Kampusch's account of her ordeal but as a testament to her indomitable spirit

Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times