In Order to Live
Autor Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 sep 2016
Structura volumului In Order to Live este concepută ca o mărturie stratificată, trecând de la copilăria marcată de privațiunile regimului de la Phenian la realitatea brutală a supraviețuirii în China. Metodologia narativă adoptată de Yeonmi Park și Maryanne Vollers refuză liniaritatea simplistă a unei evadări reușite, alegând în schimb să exploreze zonele de umbră ale memoriei traumatice. Observăm o tranziție clară între capitolele dedicate îndoctrinării — unde supraviețuirea depindea de piața neagră — și cele care descriu coșmarul sclaviei sexuale din China, o etapă pe care autoarea a încercat inițial să o ignore prin mecanisme de disociere. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Park descrie dezumanizarea: la 13 ani, suferind de malnutriție severă, libertatea nu era un concept abstract, ci echivala cu promisiunea unui bol de orez. Cartea extinde cadrul propus de Escaping North Korea de Mike Kim cu date noi din perspectiva unei femei vulnerabile, oferind o privire mult mai intimă asupra rețelelor de trafic transfrontaliere. În timp ce The Girl with Seven Names de Hyeonseo Lee se concentrează pe identitate și repatriere, lucrarea de față pune accentul pe reziliența psihologică în fața abuzului sistemic. Suntem de părere că acest volum reprezintă punctul culminant al operei sale, depășind edițiile internaționale precum Meine Flucht aus Nordkorea sau Escapar Para Vivir prin profunzimea detaliilor despre costul uman al libertății. Față de lucrarea sa ulterioară, While Time Remains, care analizează tendințele politice occidentale, In Order to Live rămâne ancora factuală a experienței sale directe, esențială pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor de control social și a fragilității drepturilor omului în statele totalitare.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 014310974X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 139 x 213 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
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Despre autor
Yeonmi Park este o activistă pentru drepturile omului și autoare născută în Coreea de Nord. După ce a evadat din țara natală în 2007, a trecut prin experiențe traumatizante în China înainte de a se stabili în Coreea de Sud și, ulterior, în Statele Unite. A devenit o voce globală după discursul său viral de la summitul One Young World din 2014. Prin scrierile sale, Park documentează atrocitățile regimului de la Phenian și atrage atenția asupra crizei refugiaților, transformându-și propria suferință într-un instrument de educare internațională privind libertatea și demnitatea umană.
Descriere scurtă
Park s family was loving and close-knit, but life in North Korea was brutal, practically medieval. Park would regularly go without food and was made to believe that, Kim Jong Il, the country s dictator, could read her mind. After her father was imprisoned and tortured by the regime for trading on the black-market, a risk he took in order to provide for his wife and two young daughters, Yeonmi and her family were branded as criminals and forced to the cruel margins of North Korean society. With thirteen-year-old Park suffering from a botched appendectomy and weighing a mere sixty pounds, she and her mother were smuggled across the border into China.
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I wasn t dreaming of freedom when I escaped from North Korea. I didn t even know what it meant to be free. All I knew was that if my family stayed behind, we would probably die from starvation, from disease, from the inhuman conditions of a prison labor camp. The hunger had become unbearable; I was willing to risk my life for the promise of a bowl of rice. But there was more to our journey than our own survival. My mother and I were searching for my older sister, Eunmi, who had left for China a few days earlier and had not been heard from since."
Park knew the journey would be difficult, but could not have imagined the extent of the hardship to come." "Those years in China cost Park her childhood, and nearly her life." "By the time she and her mother made their way to South Korea two years later, her father was dead and her sister was still missing. Before now, only her mother knew what really happened between the time they crossed the Yalu river into China and when they followed the stars through the frigid Gobi Desert to freedom. As she writes, I convinced myself that a lot of what I had experienced never happened. I taught myself to forget the rest.
In "In Order to Live, " Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea and to freedom.
Still in her early twenties, Yeonmi Park has lived through experiences that few people of any age will ever know and most people would never recover from. Park confronts her past with a startling resilience, refusing to be defeated or defined by the circumstances of her former life in North Korea and China. In spite of everything, she has never stopped being proud of where she is from, and never stopped striving for a better life. Indeed, today she is a human rights activist working determinedly to bring attention to the oppression taking place in her home country.
Park s testimony is rare, edifying, and terribly important, and the story she tells in "In Order to Live" is heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. Her voice is riveting and dignified. This is the human spirit at its most indomitable."