A Thousand Miles to Freedom (Paperback)

from petterw

A beyond belief story of a family escaping the dictatorship of North Korea, with more hardship than any person should be able to take. I have briefly met Eunsun Kim, a lovely, soft spoken but determined girl, and the strength of this story comes from the ordinariness of its main characters. They ...

from Jaylia3

This memoir has a personal, almost conversational tone, but what a moving, heartbreaking, inspiring, fascinating story she has to tell. Eunsun Kim spent her early years happily enough in North Korea, and that was interesting in itself to read about, but then famine drove her family across the bor...

from Castlelass

Eunsun Kim's memoir about growing up in North Korea, going through the famine of the 1990s, and leaving for a better life. She, her mother, and her sister overcame many obstacles to eventually escape. Unfortunately, it reads like a report. There is little reflection or analysis. She is a young pe...

from Linda.Bass

I won this book and agreed to give it an honest review. I was so caught up in Eunsun Kim plight that I worried about her and the brave struggles of her family, since her father and her grandparents starved to death in their North Korean villages due to a famine that swept the country, The dictato...

from Linda.Bass

I won this book and agreed to give it an honest review. I was so caught up in Eunsun Kim plight that I worried about her and the brave struggles of her family, since her father and her grandparents starved to death in their North Korean villages due to a famine that swept the country, The dictato...