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Cargando... In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (edición 2015)por Yeonmi Park (Autor), Maryanne Vollers (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a somewhat harrowing book. It's written by a young woman who spent her childhood before escaping with her mother to South Korea as a teenager. It describes her early life of poverty and deprivation of all kinds: though compared with some, her family was privileged. The perceived behaviour of family members and friends affected how the family was treated by officials, and governed their access to decent jobs. Government propaganda radio was a compulsory constant of everyday life. Escape was fraught with danger, and the price the women paid for fleeing was that they were trafficked and sold in China, only eventually making the hazardous journey across desert through Mongolia to South Korea. Yeonmi describes her painful adaptation to western life, her efforts to get an education, and her eventual position as a spokesperson for the North Korean community. A worthwhile and disturbing read, at a time when North Korea is much in the news. ( ) 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. 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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