In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
of Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers
Description
Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be "completely free," she had to confront the truth of her past. It is an ugly, shameful story of being sold with her mother into slave marriages by Chinese brokers, and although she at first tried to hide the painful details when blending into South Korean society, she realized how her survival story could inspire others. Moreover, her sister had also escaped earlier and had vanished into China for years, prompting the author to go public with her story in the hope of finding her sister.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 273 pages
- Publisher Penguin Press
- Publication Date September 29th 2015
- First Publication 09/25/15
- Language English
- ISBN 9781594206795
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
- Scenario ["North Korea (Korea, Democratic People's Republic of)", 'China', 'South Korea (Korea, Republic of)']
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