In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Sep 2015 · Penguin UK
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'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution.
This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia, with only the stars to guide her way, and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday.
'Clear-eyed and devastating' Observer
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution.
This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia, with only the stars to guide her way, and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday.
'Clear-eyed and devastating' Observer
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4.9
299 reviews
Raphaël Urfer
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July 29, 2023
Wonderful book! I absolutely recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about the people around the world who are suffering but who have the will-power and courage to try to get a better life.
George Pankovas
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May 23, 2024
An Amazing story,at least one with a happy ending as Yeonmi was reunited with her sister after seven years It is so soul destroying to learn that such regeams still exist in this supposedly enlightened world.
Samara Tye
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March 26, 2018
One of the best books I've read in a long time. Changes the way you see North Korea and Korean people in general. Yeonmi being the same age as me, I saw myself second guess the harshness of my own life. Beautiful book,
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Yeonmi Park was born in Hyesan, North Korea in 1993 and currently lives in New York.
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