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A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea

Ishikawa, Masaji2018
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This title tells 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.
Main title:
A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea / Masaji Ishikawa ; translated by Risa Kobayashi, Martin Brown.
Author:
Ishikawa, Masaji, authorKobayashi, Risa, translatorBrown, Martin, translator
Imprint:
Seattle : AmazonCrossing, 2018.
Collation:
172 pages
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781542047197 (pbk)
Dewey class:
951.9305092951.93
LC class:
DS934.6
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
2297375
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