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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom

byYeonmi Park

Focused on a North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, In Order to Live brings Yeonmi Park's biographical portrait to a complex and consequential subject. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning.

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

Sep 27, 2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

288

ISBN

9780143109747