A river in darkness : one man's escape from North Korea / Masaji Ishikawa ; translated by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ishikawa, Masaji, author.

Contributor:

Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Kobayashi, Risa, translator.

Brown, Martin, translator.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Caste-based discrimination.

Multiracial people.

Korea (North)--Social conditions.

Korea (North).

Social conditions.

Multiracial people--Korea (North)--Biography.

Caste-based discrimination--Korea (North).

Totalitarianism.

Ishikawa, Masaji.

Local Subjects:

Korea (North)--Social conditions.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

159 pages : map ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : AmazonCrossing, 2017.

Summary:

"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. A 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."--Publisher's description.

Notes:

Previously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. originally published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.

ISBN:

9781503936904

1503936902

9781542047197

1542047196

OCLC:

1014436663

Publisher Number:

99978875413