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The hard road out : one woman's escape from North Korea / Jihyun Park and Seh-lynn Chai.

by Park, Jihyun, 1968-

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HarperNorth, 2022.

951.93051 P235h

Park, Jihyun, 1968-

Defectors -- Korea (North) -- Biography.

Defectors -- Great Britain -- Biography.

9780008541408 (hc.)

Alternate title:

One woman's escape from North Korea

xii, 199 p. ; 24 cm.

In English, translated from French.

"Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the 'socialist miracle' to flee famine and dictatorship.By the age of 29 she had already witnessed a lifetime of suffering. Family members had died of starvation; her brother was beaten nearly to death by soldiers. Even smiling and laughing was discouraged. The first time she ran, she was forced abandon her father on his deathbed - crossing the border under a hail of bullets. In China she was sold to a farmer, with whom she had a son, before being denounced and forcibly returned to North Korea. Six months later guards abandoned her, injured, outside a prison camp. She recovered and returned China to seek her son, now six, before attempting to navigate the long, hard road through the Gobi Desert and into Mongolia. Clear-eyed and resolute, Jihyun's extraordinary story reveals a Korea far removed from the talk of nuclear weapons and economic sanctions. She remains sanguine despite the hardship. Recalling life's tiny pleasures even at her darkest moments, she manages to instill her tale with incredible grace and humanity. Written with South Korean compatriot Seh-lynn Chai."

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Seh-Lynn, 1965- contributor.

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