I, like many, am fascinated and horrified by North Korea.
It's hard to accept that this is still part of our world. It's a true story that sounds like dystopian fiction - for most of us, it is difficult to imagine families being lured to a new "paradise", only to be met with famine, concentration camps and violence. And we were “the masters of our own destiny.” And if we begged to differ, we were dead. I, like many, am fascinated Serfdom is freedom. Hopefully someone will come along with more info! I'd love to see an interview with the author, but haven't found anything yet. It's a fair question, though, whether the author is doing all this himself, or if someone is helping/exploiting him. The author is presumably getting paid like any other Kindle direct self-publisher, thought probably not a ton of money. maybe it was originally published in Korean or Japanese, but I don't know either language and so can't really look. It's a total mystery how they heard about the story. So Amazon invited the author to submit the work, and the two translators are freelancers working for Amazon. This explains why there have been so many foreign Kindle First selections over the past year! There's an article about it here. This was published through AmazonCrossing, which is a translation service that Amazon runs that I'd never heard of before. I also wondered if there might be negative consequences for him having this published, since the Japanese government seemed against him telling the story of his escape from China, and he still lives in Japan. I also wondered if there might be negative consequences for him having this published, since the Japanese government seemed ag …more That's a good question. 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. 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.
But the reality of their new life was far from utopian. 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. 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. 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 unwittin 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.
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