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Chargement... In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (édition 2015)par Yeonmi Park (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Yeonmi was born in Hyesan, North Korea, in 1993. She grew up in a country where people were brainwashed to love their Leader and had no idea how different the world was outside. Her father was an enterprising man who traded goods in the black market to provide for his family, but when he was arrested and sent to a labor camp, life became even more challenging. Yeonmi, her mother, and her sister, Eunmi, decided to defect across the Yalu River into China to escape their desperate situation. However, they found themselves plunged into the world of human trafficking. Yeonmi's firsthand account of her and her mother's journey is honest and sobering, shedding light on the heartbreaking reality of trafficking that exists all over the world. ( ) 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. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Yeonmi a 13 ans, sa courte vie est déjà marquée par le désespoir. Elle n'a qu'une solution : fuir son pays, la Corée du Nord. Elle ne se doute pas que le chemin vers la liberté va l'entraîner en enfer... Après des années de privations et de harcèlement, par une nuit glaciale, Yeonmi, 13 ans, et sa mère, réussissent à traverser le fleuve Yalu qui marque la frontière entre la Corée du Nord et la Chine. Elles laissent derrière elles leur pays natal et ses horreurs : la faim, la délation constante et surtout une répression impitoyable et le risque permanent d'être exécutées pour la moindre infraction. Mais leur joie n'est que de courte durée. Rien ne les a préparées à ce qui les attend entre les mains des passeurs. Après plusieurs années d'épreuves inhumaines et un périple à travers la Chine et la Mongolie, Yeonmi atteint finalement la Corée du Sud. A 22 ans, Yeonmi est désormais une combattante : c'est l'une des plus influentes dissidentes nord-coréennes et une activiste reconnue des droits de l'homme.
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