A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea Contributor(s): Ishikawa, Masaji (Author), Kobayashi, Risa (Translator), Brown, Martin (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1542047196 ISBN-13: 9781542047197 Publisher: Amazon Crossing
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (0.39 lbs) 172 pages |
Features: Maps |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2017 pg. 64 Booklist 12/15/2017 pg. 85 |
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Publisher Description: An Amazon Charts Most Read and Most Sold book. The harrowing true story of one man's life in--and subsequent escape from--North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes. 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. In this 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. A River in Darkness is not only a shocking portrait of life inside the country but a testament to the dignity--and indomitable nature--of the human spirit. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ishikawa, Masaji: - Born in 1947 in Kawasaki, Japan, Masaji Ishikawa moved with his parents and three sisters to North Korea in 1960 at the age of thirteen, where he lived until his escape in 1996. He currently resides in Japan. |
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