In order to live
Subtitle: a North Korean girl's journey to freedom
By: Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers
Contributors: Vollers, Maryanne, author
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction; Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781410483386
Subjects: Politics and government; Escapes; Defectors; Human rights workers; Young women; Large type books; Refugees; Biography; History
Description: "'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die--from starvation, or disease, or even execution. This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia, with only the stars to guide her way, and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist--all before her 21st birthday"--From Penguin Random House website.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Part One: North Korea. Even the Birds and Mice Can Hear You Whisper ; A Dangerous History ; Swallows and Magpies ; Tears of Blood ; The Dear Leader ; City of Dreams ; The Darkest Nights ; A Song for Chosun ; Jangmadang Generation ; The Lights of China ; Missing; title: Part Two: China. The Other Side of Darkness ; A Deal with the Devil ; A Birthday Gift ; Dust and Bones ; Kidnapped ; Like Bread from the Sky ; Following the Stars; title: Part Three: South Korea. The Freedom Birds ; Dreams and Nightmares ; A Hungry Mind ; Now on My Way to Meet You ; Amazing Grace ; Homecoming.