A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea / Masaji Ishikawa ; translated by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: Seattle : AmazonCrossing, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 159 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781503936904
- 1503936902
- 9781542047197
- 1542047196
- 306.095193Â 23
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Fort Scott Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Fort Scott Public Library | Adult Books | 951.93 Ishi (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35326000424844 |
Previously published in Japan in 2000.
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.
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