The hard road out : escaping North Korea / Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai ; translated by Sarah Baldwin-Beneich.

Manchester : HarperNorth, 2022.

256 pages ; 24 cm

Translated from the Korean.

Here is the harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. 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 to 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 prison guards abandoned her, injured, outside a camp.

9780008541408 (hbk)

362.8'7'092
362.87092

English
Korean

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