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Deux Coréennes : souvenirs du pays d'ou l'on ne peut s'échapper
Seh-lynn, Jihyun Park
- Libretto
- Litterature Etrangere
- 5 Janvier 2023
- 9782369147954
Deux Coréennes est l'histoire d'une Nord-Coréenne racontée par une Sud-Coréenne. Le récit de l'enfance, de l'éducation, de l'emprisonnement puis de la fuite de l'une (Jihyun) se mêle au sentiment de culpabilité de l'autre (Seh-Lynn).
Après une enfance plutôt heureuse, la vie de Jihyun s'écroule. Une partie des siens est emportée par la famine, avant que son jeune frère ne meure sous les balles pour avoir tenté de fuir en Chine. La jeune fille est alors vendue à un chinois dont elle aura un fils.
Trahison, enfermement, violences et humiliations, c'est ce que le sort a réservé à Jihyun qui, comme des centaines d'autres femmes, tentera l'impossible pour rejoindre la Corée du Sud dans une quête éperdue de liberté. -
Sous la plume de sa compatriote sud-coréenne Seh-lynn, Jihyun Park nous offre un témoignage poignant sur la vie quotidienne d'une famille ordinaire dans l'enfer du « miracle socialiste » nord-coréen. De l'enfance insouciante jusqu'à la prison, en passant par la terrible famine du début des années 1990, sous le feu nourri d'une propagande totalitaire qui lave les cerveaux, Jihyun nous offre une leçon de vie et de volonté, sobre et sans pathos.
Cette voix sensible est née d'un échange et d'un dialogue entre deux femmes que tout oppose mais que l'espoir, de voir un jour les deux Corées vivre ensemble en paix, a réunies.
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THE HARD ROAD OUT - ESCAPING NORTH KOREA
Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai
- Harper Collins Uk
- 26 Mai 2022
- 9780008541408
The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice.
''A gripping, suspenseful and cathartic memoir that tells a story of pain and perseverance and makes the moral case for asylum.'' David Lammy MP 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 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 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. She remains sanguine despite the hardship. Recalling life''s tiny pleasures even at her darkest moments, she manages to instill her tale with incredible grace and humanity.
Beautifully written with South Korean compatriot Seh-lynn Chai, this compelling book offers a stark lesson in determination, and ultimately in the importance of asylum. -
THE HARD ROAD OUT - ONE WOMAN''S ESCAPE FROM NORTH KOREA
Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai
- Harper Collins Uk
- 22 Juin 2023
- 9780008541446
The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice.
''A gripping, suspenseful and cathartic memoir that tells a story of pain and perseverance and makes the moral case for asylum.'' David Lammy MP 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 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 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. She remains sanguine despite the hardship. Recalling life''s tiny pleasures even at her darkest moments, she manages to instill her tale with incredible grace and humanity.
Beautifully written with South Korean compatriot Seh-lynn Chai, this compelling book offers a stark lesson in determination, and ultimately in the importance of asylum.
