SIGNED In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom Yeonmi Park
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Item specifics
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- EAN
- 9781594206795
- ISBN
- 9781594206795
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594206791
ISBN-13
9781594206795
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208675073
Product Key Features
Book Title
In Order to Live : a North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Personal Memoirs, History & Theory, General, Women's Studies, Social Activists, Asia / Korea, World / Asian
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.8 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-509352
Reviews
"One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller "An eloquent, wrenchingly honest work that vividly represents the plight of many North Koreans." -- Kirkus Reviews "Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit and one young woman's incredible determination to never be hungry again." --Publishers Weekly, "An eloquent, wrenchingly honest work that vividly represents the plight of many North Koreans." -- Kirkus Reviews "Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit and one young woman's incredible determination to never be hungry again." --Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
325/.21095193 B
Synopsis
"I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller "Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit and one young woman's incredible determination to never be hungry again." --Publishers Weekly In In Order to Live, Yeonmi 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. Park confronts her past with a startling resilience. 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 heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. This is the human spirit at its most indomitable., "I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." 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.
LC Classification Number
DS935.7773.P37A3
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- i***c (48)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe book shipped quickly and is like new. I’ve been wanting to read it for a while. Glad I bought it from this seller. Thanks!
- i***w (39)- Feedback left by buyer.Past yearVerified purchaseOUTSTANDING TRANSACTION & SUPERB SELLER! Condition of book as described, amazingly fast shipping, superb packaging, and reasonable price. Seller quickly answered my questions before I purchased the book. And I appreciate his covering the dust jacket with a sheet of removable plastic to protect it while shipping.Daniel Webster and the Supreme Court | Maurice Baxter First Edition 1st 1966 (#134593815002)
- a***- (165)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseProduct was exactly as described, packaged meticulously and shipped very quickly. Seller checks all the boxes. Would highly recommend.
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