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

This book hit me where it counts. A great read that I just couldn't put down and neither will you. It will really open your eyes to the corruption that's right under our noses and fill you with hope for the future at the same time.

As many of North Koreans have limited access to an outside information, this book tells us how much we don’t know about the life in North Korea. I recommend parents to buy this book so their children can have access to a completely different world, therefore it opens their world a little bit.

This was such an eye opener about the people of N. Korea and how much they suffer. I recommend this book.

赤裸々な体験談は迫力があり数日で読んでしまいました。北朝鮮の片田舎に住む庶民の暮らしや脱北後のルート、韓国で受けた差別など興味深い内容満載でした。いわゆるオルチャンメイクのカバー写真、美貌がウリなのでしょうか？幼少期の写真と較べると整形なのかな。

We all have to head this book! And be more grateful for our life!

This book is the most moving one in my life and I have ever read. I strongly recommend you to read,so you can find that your concern is still not big and take a energy from her mention.

I hope more and more people read this book. Awareness on the North Korea topic needs to be raised.

sorry...It was very beautiful and very exciting. I think it is difficult to make a proper "evaluation" with my English ability, but I was able to read it very interestingly. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in this book. Even after reading the book, I have a lot of insights into this content. Very easy to read and familiar.

Yeonmi has a very light story telling style and her story is gripping and informative, but at the same time nothing unexpected and much lighter than i personally expected it to be. She tells her story from a place of hope and victory, which makes the book informative without being harrowing or pushing the reader into any conclusions. Your opinion remains your own. At the same time it was very confrontational and unsettling to realize that we were in similar locations around the same time, each experiencing completely opposing lives and may have even crossed eachothers paths on more than one occassion. It's a small world and we don't get to choose our starting point in life. This book is both grounding and inspirational. If it doesn't provide food for thought or spark some conversations, I suggest you read it again.

I am in awe of this woman and all others who made it. The book is perfectly written in my opinion, a fast, exiting and ultimately an inspiring and motivational read. So many real life lessons from someone so young. I recommend it highly.

Starving as a child in an utterly deprived society; crossing the Yalu river to reach China, only to be sold in sexual slavery there; inching through the Gobi desert barefoot towards freedom: still in her early twenties, Yaonmi Park has lived through harrowing experiences just "in order to know what it means to be free." I gave this book the highest mark, not only for the merits of such an epic journey, but because of the the abundance of concrete details it provides about everyday life in one of the most secluded societies in the world. I knew practically nothing about North Korea. Thanks to Yaonmi Park I can now vividly imagine what it takes to survive in such a an unforgiving environment where the struggle for life consumes every part of your energy. Yaonmi Park has become a proud freedom fighter. Her book might be the first nail in the coffin of an unsustainable communist regime.

Beautiful book. Such a great read. Thanks, Yeonmi.

The book came with a bent cover. This is the second time recently that a book comes with a damaged cover :(