Reviews - Nordkorea: nio år på flykt från helvetet

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Nordkorea: nio år på flykt från helvetet

Eunsun Kim's voice is delightfully pure, in that this reads very much like the diary of an optimistic teen (which I mean in the best possible way). She tells of what she saw in North Korea and what her escape was like. Obviously full of horrors, somehow Kim manages to make this a hopeful book.

victoriabrohus's review against another edition

5.0

This biography is very exciting and sad at the same time. You have the deepest sympathy for all of the North Korean people, and for Eunsun Kim and her family. They experience good and bad thing throughout the escape. The suspense is very high, and you just hope, they make it. It as an fantastically emotional and inspiring story that urges the rest of the world to take action towards North Korea. Eunsum Kim is very brave and a big inspiration for a lot of people. Well done.

lfbennett407's review against another edition

4.0

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

brittbitter's review against another edition

5.0

While I don't think this is a full five stars I am blown away by this story. It was an easy one for me to get sucked into. I knew that life in North Korea was horrible but I truly never realized just how bad it was. I cannot believe what she went through. She wrote this book at 25 and, with it being close to my current age, I can't help but compare and contrast things she went through with my own life at the ages of 9, 11, 16 - unfathomable. This book forces you to recognize your privilege on a huge level. Reading this left me feeling sad for the people of North Korea and frustrated that more isn't being done to help them.

wireless_wizard's review against another edition

5.0

A strikingly-written and moving story, "A Thousand Miles to Freedom" is a book of the utmost importance for everyone to read. Whether or not you are interested in world politics, this is a book that, in my opinion, should be even more widely read and perhaps even assigned in schools.

dlew's review against another edition

2.0

theme - has a number in the title

reads_for_charity's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative tense fast-paced

It’s an important biography and subject, but seems hastily told. For example, there are many statements that her Chinese “step father” was purely selfish and cared nothing for her, her sister, or her mother, but the accounts described don’t display this well - he seemed to have missed them and appeared genuinely happy when they reappeared. Too much telling the reader about a person’s character without showing it, or giving opinions about matters without giving facts to explain.

tawnlcm's review against another edition

4.0

Great book to know a first hand story of someone from a place so cut off from what I know. I really enjoyed the hope and call to action to know the horrors of the Kim regime and to hope and help the Korean Peninsula once again be whole.