A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea [Paperback] Ishikawa, Masaji; Kobayashi, Risa and Brown, Martin

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Product Overview

A New York Times bestseller and Amazon Charts Most Read and Most Sold book.A
Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Memoir & Autobiography.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. Read more