Description: 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.
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Restocking Fee: No
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EAN: 9781542047197
UPC: 9781542047197
ISBN: 9781542047197
MPN: N/A
Original Language: Japanese
Book Title: River in Darkness : One Man's Escape from North Korea
Number of Pages: 172 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Sociology / General, History & Theory, Personal Memoirs, Political, Social Activists, World / Asian
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Author: Masaji Ishikawa
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
