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In order to live : a North Korean girl's journey to freedom Book
by Park, Yeonmi 1993-
Book | Penguin Press, New York : 2015.
  • 3 of 4 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Port Colborne Library
  • 2 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Port Colborne 951.93051 PAR Adult Non-fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
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"Yeonmi Park reveals the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive North Korean society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape. 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, in 2007 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<U+2019>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." 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." Park shines a light 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. Park Yeon-mi (stylized as Yeonmi Park) is a human rights activist who was born in Hyesan, North Korea, and now lives in Seoul, South Korea"--Provided by publisher.
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  • ISBN: 1594206791 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9781594206795 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.print
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
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