02524cam a2200361 4500 759320350 TxAuBib 20180402120000.0 171211s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781503936904 hbk. $19.95 1503936902 hbk. $19.95 9781542047197 pbk. 1542047196 pbk. (OCoLC)1014436663 YDX eng rda YDX XFF JTH GP5 ZLM PFLCL BTCTA BDX IMD ZVR FDB JOZ CGP OCP VAX NZD RS$ WSD TXAPL FFL OCLCQ MJ8 DUNPL IH9 JCX IDQ IDT JAH JOY IGA QS5 TS4 WL8 AZD VP@ ILC OCLCQ IHX CNEDM P@N IOS SSH FLQ KIMCL Y#4 IOD M3C GO4 IDO TxGR TxAuBib eng jpn Ishikawa, Masaji, author. A river in darkness [Book] : one man's escape from North Korea / Masaji Ishikawa ; translated by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. First edition. Seattle : AmazonCrossing, 2017. 159 pages : map ; 22 cm. Previously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. originally published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017. "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. 20180402. Ishikawa, Masaji. Racially mixed people Korea (North) Biography. Caste-based discrimination Korea (North.) Totalitarianism. Korea (North) Social conditions. Kobayashi, Risa, translator. Brown, Martin, translator. RV8