In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

Biographies & Memoirs

YEONMI PARK

Community & Culture

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Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape.  Park’s family was loving and close-knit, but life in North Korea was brutal, practically medieval. Park would regularly go without food and was made to believe that, Kim Jong Il, the country’s dictator, could read her mind. After her father was imprisoned and tortured by the regime for trading on the black-market, a risk he took in order to provide for his wife and two young daughters, Yeonmi and her family were branded as criminals and forced to the cruel margins of North Korean society. With thirteen-year-old Park suffering from a botched appendectomy and weighing a mere sixty pounds, she and her mother were smuggled across the border into China.I wasn’t dreaming of freedom when I escaped from North Korea. I didn’t even know what it meant to be free. All I knew was that if my family stayed behind, we would probably die—from starvation, from disease, from the inhuman conditions of a prison labor camp. The hunger had become unbearable; I was willing to risk my life for the promise of a bowl of rice. But there was more to our journey than our own survival. My mother and I were searching for my older sister, Eunmi, who had left for China a few days earlier and had not been heard from since. Park knew the journey would be difficult, but could not have imagined the extent of the hardship to come. Those years in China cost Park her childhood, and nearly her life.  By the time she and her mother made their way to South Korea two years later, her father was dead and her sister was still missing. Before now, only her mother knew what really happened between the time they crossed the Yalu river into China and when they followed the stars through the frigid Gobi Desert to freedom. As she writes, “I convinced myself that a lot of what I had experienced never happened. I taught myself to forget the rest.” In In Order to Live, Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea—and to freedom. Still in her early twenties, Yeonmi Park has lived through experiences that few people of any age will ever know—and most people would never recover from. Park confronts her past with a startling resilience, refusing to be defeated or defined by the circumstances of her former life in North Korea and China. In spite of everything, she has never stopped being proud of where she is from, and never stopped striving for a better life. Indeed, today she is a human rights activist working determinedly to bring attention to the oppression taking place in her home country. Park’s testimony is rare, edifying, and terribly important, and the story she tells in In Order to Live is heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. Her voice is riveting and dignified. This is the human spirit at its most indomitable.

In Order to Live : A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

While Time Remains

Threshold Editions

The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats. In While Time Remains, Park sounds the alarm for Americans by highlighting the dangerous hypocrisies, mob tactics, and authoritarian tendencies that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice. No one is spared in her eye-opening account, including the elites who claim to care for the poor and working classes but turn their backs on anyone who dares to think independently. Park arrived in America eight years ago with no preconceptions, no political aims, and no partisan agenda. With urgency and unique insight, the bestselling author and human rights activist reminds us of the fragility of freedom, and what we must do to preserve it.

While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America

Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing

Yeonmi Park nao sonhava com a liberdade quando abandonou a Coreia do Norte. Mas sabia que fugir era a unica maneira de sobreviver a fome, as doencas e ao governo repressor. Este livro e a historia da luta de Park pela vida. O leitor acompanha sua infancia no pais mais sombrio do mundo. Em seguida, testemunha sua fuga, aos treze anos, pelo submundo chines de traficantes e contrabandistas. Emociona-se com seu periplo pela China atraves do deserto de Gobi ate a Mongolia, guiada pelas estrelas, em direcao a Coreia do Sul. Vibra com seu papel como ativista pelos direitos humanos.Antes dos 21 anos, Yeonmi acumulou experiencia suficiente para encantar todas as geracoes de leitores neste livro memoravel.

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Companhia das Letras2

"Sint extrem de recunoscatoare pentru doua lucruri: ca m-am nascut in Coreea de Nord si ca am scapat din Coreea de Nord." (Yeonmi Park) Yeonmi Park a crescut crezind ca e normal sa vada cadavre in drum spre scoala si sa fie atit de flaminda, incit sa manince plante salbatice. A fost invatata sa nu-si exprime niciodata parerile si i s-a spus ca "Iubitul Conducator" poate sa-i citeasca gindurile si sa o pedepseasca pentru ele. La virsta de 13 ani, dupa ce tatal ei a fost condamnat la munca silnica, Yeonmi si familia ei au luat decizia disperata de a fugi din Coreea de Nord traversind fluviul inghetat Yalu in China, unde au cazut insa in miinile traficantilor de persoane. Dupa aproape doi ani de captivitate intr-o lume la fel de brutala si de periculoasa ca aceea pe care o parasisera, Yeonmi si mama ei si-au riscat din nou viata, strabatind desertul Gobi si orientindu-se dupa stele in drumul lor spre libertate. Yeonmi Park isi spune pentru prima oara povestea uluitoare, cu demnitate, curaj si uneori cu umor. Drumul catre libertate e o marturie despre forta spiritului uman si despre riscurile pe care sintem dispusi sa ni le asumam ca sa fim liberi.

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