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''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.

''Clear-eyed and devastating'' Observer



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Clear-eyed and devastating. * Observer *
One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring . . . A book to make you newly thankful for the freedom you have never been forced to fight for. * The Bookseller *
An eloquent, wrenchingly honest work that vividly represents the plight of many North Koreans. * Kirkus *

In Order To Live

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7 July 2016
      ISBN-13 9780241973035
      978-0241973035
      ISBN-10 0241973031
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      Biography Memoirs Politics, Philosophy & Society Autocracy, totalitarianism and dictatorship Human rights, civil rights

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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.

      ''Clear-eyed and devastating'' Observer



      Trade Review
      Clear-eyed and devastating. * Observer *
      One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring . . . A book to make you newly thankful for the freedom you have never been forced to fight for. * The Bookseller *
      An eloquent, wrenchingly honest work that vividly represents the plight of many North Koreans. * Kirkus *

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