In Order to Live

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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. New Read [ In Order to Live ] By [ Yeonmi Park ] – kino-fada.fr I don t think any review I write for this book can do it justice It s a truly remarkable story, butthan that, it shows a truly remarkable young woman who is resilient and hopeful even in the bleakest of mom...Some of you will probably skip reading this review since it s a memoir and most of my friends and followers, like me are lovers of fantasy fiction books Believe me, memoirs or any kind of non fiction books is a genre I avoid the most However, after watching Yeonmi Park s viral video on YouTube back in 2014, I was so moved and when I found out there s a book based on her life since her birth until her escape from North Korea, I bought it straight the next day If you decided to not read t Some of you will probably skip reading this review since it s a memoir and most of my friends and followers, like me are lovers of fantasy fiction books Believe me, memoirs or any kind of non fiction books is a genre I avoid the most However, after watching Yeonmi Park s viral video on YouTube back in 2014, I was so moved and when I found out there s a book based on her life since her birth until her escape from North Korea, I bought it straight the next day If you decided to not read this review at all, it s completely okay but please at least watch this video It s only 8 minutes long and will shed a light on how dark North Korea is It s not an exaggeration when people say South Korea North Korea is Heaven Hell on Earth.https www.youtube.com watch v ufhKWThat said, I m going to say this is a book that everyone in this world must read No one, and I serious...4.5 starseverything hurts and i m cryingThis book just makes you take 10 seats It s a story I can t even fathom being in It s like an actual dystopia Everything was so outrageous and haunting that it was almost unbelievable What I found myself enjoying was not just Yeonmi finding physical freedom outside the borders of North Korea and the human trafficking industry, but the mental freedom of learning how to be opinionated and advocating for others rights This book is so touching, but so sa 4.5 starseverything hurts and i m cryingThis book just makes you take 10 seats It s a story I can t even fathom being in It s like an actua...Education Re education and evenre re education Or you could just call it programming or that nice, old fashioned Cold War word, brainwashing But who, in the end, is being brainwashed It wouldn t be us now, would it Yeomi Park is born into a subsistence level existence in North Korea which is reduced to almost lower than that when her father, a smuggler of metals, is sent to a labour camp When he is released, he is a broken man At three the following morning, Yeonmi and her mother to Education Re education and evenre re education Or you could just call it programming or that nice, old fashioned Cold War word, brainwashing But who, in the end, is being brainwashed It wouldn t be us now, would it Yeomi Park is born into a subsistence level existence in North Korea which is reduced to almost lower than that when her father, a smuggler of metals, is sent to a labour camp When he is released, he is a broken man At three the following morning, Yeonmi and her mother took his remains to a nearby mountain and secretly buried them There was no funeral Nothing, Yeonmi says I couldn t even do that for my father I couldn t call anyone to say my father had passed away He was 45 really young We couldn t even give him painkillers Eventually, with the help of a trafficker, she and her mother cross to China where they are sold for the trafficker to recoup his costs In another version, in an interview with a San Francisco radio station, Park says, I esca...I honestly don t even know what to say What can you possibly say after reading Yeonmi s story Completely heartbreaking and horrific, yet inspiring all at once Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge Notes 19 A non fiction bookThis is one of the most important books I ve read in my life In Order to Live tells the true story of Yeonmi and her family growing up in the dictatorship of North Korea Yeonmi is very honest from the beginning, and her story tells about the bravery she and her family had to have in order to escape North Korea and survive I knew a little bit about North Korea beforeha...Shifting focus on this biography journey away from men with significant power, I wanted to find a piece that would not only educate, but also exemplify some of the struggles of the common person That this is also a buddy read with a good friend of mine only adds to the interest when it was suggested I read this memoir by Yeonmi Park Growing up in North Korea, Park offers the reader some history of the country and the autocratic Kim Family dynasty, some of which directly related to her own ance Shifting focus on this biography journey away from men with significant power, I wanted to find a piece that would not only educate, but also exemplify some of the struggles of the common person That this is also a bu...I m not normally an autobiography fan I mostly read fiction But Yeonmi s story is just you know how they say truth is stranger than fiction That.We have to bear in mind here that I met the lovely, kind and humble lady herself before I read this I ll hold my hands up that that probably had an impact on how much this book touched me.Split into three parts to document her escape from North Korea, set in NK, China and South Korea, the account is heartbreaking, fascinating and punctuated by th I m not normally an autobiography fan I mostly read fiction But Yeonmi s story is just you know how they say truth is stranger than fiction That.We have to bear in mind here that I met the lovely, kind and humble lady herself before I read this I ll hold my hands up that that ...Ich wei , dass es viel Kritik an Yeonmi Park gibt und an der Glaubw rdigkeit ihrer Geschichte Ich kenne diese Vorw rfe, und tue sie auch nicht als Quatsch ab, sondern denke, dass da definitiv etwas dran ist.ABER das Buch selbst ist wirklich sehr gelungen Es ist sehr ergreifend, gr tenteils extrem schockierend vor allem weil ich dachte, dass ich ber Nordkorea schon viel wei und spannend Eine Biographie, die man gelesen haben sollte, die aufkl rt und meinen Blick auf die Welt nochmal ein bi Ich wei , dass es viel Kritik an Yeonmi Park gibt und an der Glaubw rdigkeit ihrer Geschichte Ich kenne diese Vorw rfe, und tue sie auch nicht als Quatsch ab, sondern denke, dass da definitiv etwas dran ist.ABER das Buch selbst is...Es 1984 pero real, est pasando ahora mismo en Corea del Norte, y lo peor de todo es que cuando consiguen escapar del pa s, los desertores est n expuestos a las mafias de trata de blancas Es impactante porque es real, y el Mundo no parece o no quiere darse cuenta de la realidad.De obligada lectura

In Order to Live
  • English
  • 18 December 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 273 pages
  • 1594206791
  • Yeonmi Park
  • In Order to Live