A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

2000 • 172 pages

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


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The real North Korea

Want to know the story about the real North Korea, the one without the minders and censors, without Denis Rodman and hooey from Donald Trump? This is the meaning of true poverty, desperation, deprivation and starvation? Read this book and know.

December 22, 2018

Heartbreaking

Astonishingly well written chronicle of one man and his family's life in Japan and their move to North Korea in 1960. I couldn't get enough and read the whole thing ins one sitting.

December 15, 2017
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