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Collection: 7-day Books
Call Number: 362.87
Author: Park, Jihyun
Title: The Hard Road Out
Remainder of title: One Woman's Escape from Nortth Korea
Summary, etc. note: "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. 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 guards abandoned her, injured, outside a prison camp. She recovered and returned to 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."-- Provided by publisher

International Standard Book Number: 9780008541408
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Name of publisher: HarperNorth
Date of publication: 2022
Extent: 198p.
Other physical details: hardcover
Source of acquisition: B & T 03/15/2023
Purchase price: 28.99
Subject: Seh-Lynn, 1965- alt. author
Subject: Escapes -- Korea (North)
Subject: Defectors -- Korea (North)

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