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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

Park, Yeonmi

| 2015

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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 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...

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2024-10-26

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Stark och gripande berättelse om familjeband och flykten från en omöjlig livssituation till ett annat helvete innan det gick att ta sig vidare. Svårt att inte bli berörd. Viktig bok att ta del av. Jag har läst den på svenska: ”För att kunna leva”.

Åsa G

2017-03-01

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mycket gripande historia om att växa upp i Nordkorea och flykten därifrån till Kina där svåra förhållanden väntade