In order to live a North Korean girl's journey to freedom
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 b...
| Main Authors: | Park, Yeonmi, 1993- (Author), Vollers, Maryanne (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Penguin Press,
2015.
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| Summary: |
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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| Physical Description: |
273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781594206795 1594206791 9780241203606 0241203600 9780241203613 0241203619 9780241973035 0241973031 141048338X 9781410483386 9780143109747 014310974X |
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