ENGLISH

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

By Brown , Martin;Ishikawa , Masaji;Kobayashi , Risa

Book information

Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Year
2017
ISBN
9781503936904, 1503936902, 9781542047197, 1542047196
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
659 kB (674804 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
159 pages : map ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs;BIOGRAMasaji;Racially mixed people -- Korea (North)

Description

"Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian. A memoir translated from the original Japanese, Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life."--Publisher's description.

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