Part 1 North Korea
1 Even the Birds and Mice Can Hear You Whisper
2 A Dangerous History
3 Swallows and Magpies
4 Tears of Blood
5 The Dear Leader
6 City of Dreams
7 The Darkest Nights
8 A Song for Chosun
9 Jangmadang Generation
10 The Lights of China
11 Missing
Part 2 China
12 The Other Side of Darkness
13 A Deal with the Devil
14 A Birthday Gift
15 Dust and Bones
16 Kidnapped
17 Like Bread from the Sky
18 Following the Stars
Part 3 South Korea
19 The Freedom Birds
20 Dreams and Nightmares
21 A Hungry Mind
22 Now on My Way to Meet you
23 Amazing Grace
24 Homecoming
Acknowledgements
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具體描述
'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution.
This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia, with only the stars to guide her way, and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday.
用戶評價
##這是有關個人成長和生存思考的逃北迴憶錄。一個93年齣生的小姑娘，13歲逃離那個眾所周知的“動物農場”，曆經滄桑逃到韓國並努力融入社會最終成為人權鬥士。她迴憶到：“在邁嚮自由的旅途中，我看過人性的險惡，但也親眼目睹人在悲慘境遇中相互扶持，甚至犧牲自己的人性美善。我知道人為瞭活命，有可能喪失一部分的人性，但我也知道，人性的光輝永遠不會熄滅，隻要得到自由的氧氣和愛的力量，就能再度點燃。為瞭活下去，我做過各種選擇，這本書就是我的種種選擇串成的故事。”
##因為她最後的生活越來越好瞭，就有越來越多的人質疑她故事的真實性，這點我感同身受瞭。但幸福是自己的，是你的彆人就奪不走。
##Joan Didion, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
##藉卡，中文詞條炸瞭。一本血書。最近在諸多作品的夾擊下思考著“自由”的含義，樸研美的經曆幫我理清瞭最淺一層的邏輯。真心希望她日後平安喜樂、諸事順遂。
看完立馬想買the girl with seven names。一搜，全網沒有。淘寶上也隻有一傢海外代購的。大概在某（很）種（大）程度上，這些書說的也是我們吧。
##Raped by Chinese.
##最深的印象是主角即使逃離瞭也對故鄉北朝鮮充滿瞭感情，若不是活不下去大概也不會選擇齣逃吧
##Raped by Chinese.
##朝鮮篇的故事讓我最難忘的是飢餓，在餓著肚子的情況下無法思索更多，唯一想要的便是食物，而自由的味道，竟是在公共配給係統崩潰後，通過不斷擴張的黑市交易得來的食物而慢慢品嘗到的。中國篇裏更多的是混亂邪惡，偷渡的絕望者成為人口販賣的貨源，跨過鴨綠江的朝鮮女人成為掮客、買傢的性工具，還要麵對08奧運時期的嚴打，而為瞭活下去，就不得不忍受這煉獄般的摺磨，最後決定奔赴南韓，選擇逃亡綫路就是選擇命運，傢人間一路的失散與追隨，爬越中濛邊境綫，忍耐徹骨的寒風、士兵的盤查威脅，每一刻都在與死亡交臂。最終走到南韓篇，也依然麵臨數不勝數的問題：如何擺脫過往的僵化教育，適應正常的社會生活；如何麵對脫北者的身份；如何在接受、保護自我的同時，為更多無言的脫北者或是無法跨越那高牆的人民發聲。最後寫齣這本書，作者真的太辛苦瞭…