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Cargando... Escapar para vivir: El viaje de una joven norcoreana hacia la libertad (Spanish Edition) (edición 2017)por Yeonmi Park (Autor), Aida Candelario Castro (Traductor)
Información de la obraIn Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom por Yeonmi Park (Author)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a powerful book. It has echoes of Tara Westover's "Educated" -- a young woman, confronted with a series of brutal life circumstances, neglect and outright malice, nevertheless finds sufficient strength in herself and those around her to escape and to triumph. In both books, the struggle for education is amazing, and pays off hugely. But there are stark differences, as well. Park is describing not a single family or small cult in a corner of the US. The North Korean government absolutely controls the lives of 24 million people, the vast majority of whom are impoverished. All are forbidden freedom of thought, freedom of association, freedom of movement. Much more compellingly, the abuse and rape to which Park was subjected by human traffickers in her flight from North Korea are literally terrible -- terror is the rational response. That these are frequent conditions for women in flight is certain. I'm very glad that Yeonmi Park chose to tell this story. Yeonmi's story is harrowing, and deeply moving. So few have been able to escape and come to America. Yeonmi's story includes her discovery and awareness of liberty, and of course if you've seen her second book or heard her speak, she warns that the academy of the west has been taken in by the same kind of ideological cult that infected North Korea. This book offers an account of Yeonmi's life and escape from the horror show of her birth place, and so serves also as a kind of warning we in the west should heed. This is a memoir by a North Korean defector and now human rights activist. Following precarious years of hardship and malnutrition, Yeonmi at the age of only 13 escaped from her country with her mother in March 2007. Living in the northern border city of Hyesan, China was just across the frozen Yalu river and beckoned with its relative economic prosperity and comparative freedom. But Yeonmi's struggles were only just beginning as her mother was almost immediately raped and then they were bought and sold, and abused by successive waves of human traffickers. After two years in China, and searching for Yeonmi's sister who had defected separately at around the same time, they eventually made their way (counterintuitively from a geographical point of view) via Mongolia, to South Korea. She had been forced to grow up very quickly, having to make life-changing and potentially life-ending decisions, all before she was even 16 years old. But despite that enforced growing up, the very limited confines of her (and of course nearly all her fellow country people's) growing up and education in North Korea meant that she has no concept of freedom or democracy, or even, really tragically, of human love: "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." As the bartering began for Yeonmi and her mother, she was "caught between fear and hope. We were numb, and our purpose was reduced to our immediate needs: Get away from the dangerous border. Get away from this terrible bald broker and his frightening wife. Get something to eat and figure out the rest of it later." But later on she was separated from her mother and "was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things were worthless. I had lost my family. I wasn’t loved, I wasn’t free, and I wasn’t safe. I was alive, but everything that made life worth living was gone." Even after Yeonmi and her mother escaped to South Korea, the process of getting used to life in a freer and much more prosperous society was very hard. The utterly alien mindset caused by a very limited mental horizon is perhaps one of the hardest aspects for the Western reader to get his or her head round - for example when asked what her hobbies were: "I had no idea what a “hobby” was. When it was explained that it was something I did that made me happy, I couldn’t conceive of such a thing. My only goal was supposed to be making the regime happy. And why would anyone care about what “I” wanted to be when I grew up? There was no “I” in North Korea—only we". She could not even name her favourite colour and until a teacher told her her own, which she then parroted: "It took me a long time to start thinking for myself and to understand why my own opinions mattered. But after five years of practicing being free, I know now that my favorite color is spring green and my hobby is reading books and watching documentaries." Until that time, Yeonmi "had always thought that being free meant being able to wear jeans and watch whatever movies I wanted without worrying about being arrested. Now I realized that I had to think all the time—and it was exhausting. There were times when I wondered whether, if it wasn’t for the constant hunger, I would be better off in North Korea, where all my thinking and all my choices were taken care of for me". Her journey to freedom and success has been a difficult one. She has been an activist speaking out against North Korea and in favour of freedom for nearly a decade and it is amazing to think she is still not yet 30. A remarkable journey by a remarkable individual. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:??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 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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An inspiring, informative and just heartbreaking story. Find her on YouTube for more, she became human rights activist ( )