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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is a somewhat harrowing book. It's written by a young woman who spent her childhood before escaping with her mother to South Korea as a teenager. It describes her early life of poverty and deprivation of all kinds: though compared with some, her family was privileged. The perceived behaviour of family members and friends affected how the family was treated by officials, and governed their access to decent jobs. Government propaganda radio was a compulsory constant of everyday life. Escape was fraught with danger, and the price the women paid for fleeing was that they were trafficked and sold in China, only eventually making the hazardous journey across desert through Mongolia to South Korea. Yeonmi describes her painful adaptation to western life, her efforts to get an education, and her eventual position as a spokesperson for the North Korean community. A worthwhile and disturbing read, at a time when North Korea is much in the news. ( ) This is a powerful book. It has echoes of Tara Westover's "Educated" -- a young woman, confronted with a series of brutal life circumstances, neglect and outright malice, nevertheless finds sufficient strength in herself and those around her to escape and to triumph. In both books, the struggle for education is amazing, and pays off hugely. But there are stark differences, as well. Park is describing not a single family or small cult in a corner of the US. The North Korean government absolutely controls the lives of 24 million people, the vast majority of whom are impoverished. All are forbidden freedom of thought, freedom of association, freedom of movement. Much more compellingly, the abuse and rape to which Park was subjected by human traffickers in her flight from North Korea are literally terrible -- terror is the rational response. That these are frequent conditions for women in flight is certain. I'm very glad that Yeonmi Park chose to tell this story. Yeonmi's story is harrowing, and deeply moving. So few have been able to escape and come to America. Yeonmi's story includes her discovery and awareness of liberty, and of course if you've seen her second book or heard her speak, she warns that the academy of the west has been taken in by the same kind of ideological cult that infected North Korea. This book offers an account of Yeonmi's life and escape from the horror show of her birth place, and so serves also as a kind of warning we in the west should heed. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Yeonmi Park drm̲de inte om frihet nr̃ hon flydde frn̄ Nordkorea. Hon visste inte ens vad frihet innebar. Det enda hon visste var att hon flydde fr̲ livet, att om hon och hennes familj stannade kvar skulle de d ̲ av svl̃t, eller sjukdom, eller till och med genom avrt̃tning. Det hr̃ r̃ bert̃telsen om Parks kamp fr̲ att v̲erleva i en av vr̃ldens mest brutala och slutna diktaturer. Vi fr̄ fl̲ja fr̲fattaren frn̄ uppvx̃ten i den nordkoreanska grñsstaden Hyesan till flykten till Sydkorea via Kinas undre vr̃ld av mñniskosmugglare och trafficking; och hur hon sedan utvecklas till en ledande mñniskort̃tsaktivist innan hon ens fyllt 21. Fr̲ att kunna leva r̃ en stark, insiktsfull och angelg̃en inifrn̄skildring av en tillvaro som hittills mestadels har varit dold fr̲ omvr̃lden. En vl̃skriven, brutalt r̃lig och levande skildring av den svr̄a tillvaron fr̲ s ̄mn̄ga nordkoreaner.Kirkus Review Yeonmi Park fd̲des 1993 i den nordkoreanska staden Hyesan, som ligger vid grñsen till Kina. 2007 flydde hon tillsammans med sin mamma till Kina och slutligen till Sydkorea via Mongoliet. Idag bor hon i Seoul och fr̲e ls̃er vr̃lden v̲er som mñniskort̃tsaktivist. P ̄min fr̃d har jag sett de fasor som mñniskor kan tillfoga varandra, men jag har ocks ̄varit vittne till m̲sinta och vñliga handlingar och uppoffringar under de vr̃sta tñkbara omstñdigheter. Jag vet att man kan fr̲lora en del av sin mñsklighet fr̲ att v̲erleva. Men jag vet ocks ̄att den mñskliga vr̃dighetens gnista aldrig helt utslc̃ks och att den kan tñdas igen om den bara fr̄ frihetens syre och kr̃lekens kraft. Detta r̃ min bert̃telse om de val som jag gjorde fr̲ att kunna leva. [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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