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While Time Remains

A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America

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While Time Remains

By: Yeonmi Park
Narrated by: Maureen Taylor
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.

After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats.

In While Time Remains, Park highlights the dangerous hypocrisies, mob tactics, and authoritarian tendencies that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice. No one is spared in her eye-opening account, including the elites who claim to care for the poor and working classes but turn their backs on anyone who dares to think independently.

Park arrived in America eight years ago with no preconceptions, no political aims, and no partisan agenda. With urgency and unique insight, the bestselling author and human rights activist reminds us of the fragility of freedom, and what we must do to preserve it.

©2023 Yeonmi Park. All rights reserved. (P)2023 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. Freedom & Security Politics & Government Inspiring North Korea

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After listening to the first book it was a no brainier. A true inspiration as a person and an idea. The book is perfectly written with a fantastic reader.

I look forward to any future books by Yeonmi

Peace

Amazing book. Fantastically written

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A brilliant new View of the way the wold is in the west at the min

Brilliant insightful

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I came across this having noticed Yeonmi on several podcasts lately. Highly recommend and I have recommended it to others. Once you start, you can’t stop listening.

Gripping

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Un audiolibro per aprire gli occhi verso la realtà che ci è attorno.. Questa ragazza ci mostra lo stesso mondo che viviamo dal suo punto di vista, ogni tanto è necessario vedere le cose da altri punti di vista per comprendere la realtà

Da ascoltare

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The authors story is inspiring and i really enjoyed how she tells it. Listened straight through from start to finish.

Really Enjoyed it

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Eloquent, very well explained. The strength of her being comes across and it touches one's inner core. Thank you for writing the book.

An eye opener

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Even though I'm a fan of Yeonmi I was a little bit sceptical whether the north Korean defector still has something to say. I found she's well read and understands the contemporary societal problems.
Besides sharing her own experience in America the book talks among other things about:
-the woke culture and how easily are young people prone to complaints on trivial matters;
-racism in America
-the pretense and effectively moral corruption of the elites

very relevant book, highly recommended!

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I read quite a few negative critiques of Yeonmi before I listened to this excellent audiobook. I became suspicious when these critiques began to reveal a pattern : the commentators were seizing upon trivial and very minor contradictions in her recollections - in different interviews - of exact dates, meetings, and encounters with a few people along the journey of her long walk to freedom, etc. I began to think of these critical voices that “they doth protest too much - what is it about Yeonmi that has made them so vociferously determined to rubbish her? Why are they trying so hard to find something - anything - to undermine her ?” So I proceeded to read her own words and I began to realise… Her narrative is utterly devastating both to the North Korean establishment and to those of the “Woke” persuasion in the West. Of COURSE they would try to take her down. I suspect that the adversarial attacks emanate primarily (but not exclusively) from sources like (1) North Korean agents, and (2) Social Justice Warriors of the Woke persuasion. Yeonmi’s words are devastating to both those constituencies. The book is literate, scholarly, deeply personal, and suffused with evidence and insight. I have one major critique. I am a fan and deep admirer of Jordan Peterson but in this instance I think his introduction to the book is off-balance. He is far too angry and venomous, and notwithstanding the accuracy of his observations, the reader is likely to skip his intro to get to the book itself. Jordan, you are at your scintillating best when you are calm and incisive: tone down the anger, just a little.

A very important voice

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The book not only tells her story but comes to the present time and her fears for the future. She comes from a dictatorship and knows of it feels to live under a regime like that. She sees the parallel to today's society and criticizes it with strong arguments based on her experiences. It is definitely worth the time!

Grandiose

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Amazing continuation of In Order to Live and the story of the authors life and the issues of modern day society.
Although the narrator's voice was a bit too dramatic for my taste. Still a captivating listen.

Thrilling book

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