A River In Darkness: One Man's Escape From North Korea
by Masaji Ishikawa /
2018 / English / PDF
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An Amazon Charts Most Read and Most Sold book.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
is not only a shocking portrait of life inside the
country but a testament to the dignity—and indomitable nature—of
the human spirit.