Un río en la oscuridad

The heartbreaking true story of a man's life in North Korea and his subsequent flight from one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes. Half Korean, half Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his entire life feeling like a man without a country. A sentiment that deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea, when Ishikawa was only thirteen and unknowingly became a member of the lower social caste. Her Korean national father had been drawn to the new communist country with promises of abundant work, a good education for his children and a better social position. But the reality of his new life was far from utopian. In her memoirs, Ishikawa frankly and in detail recounts her tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years she spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges she faced in getting to repatriate to Japan after escaping North Korea at risk. his life. But A River in the Dark is not only one of the few first-person testimonies of life within this Asian dictatorship, it is an inspiring and valuable testimony to the dignity and indomitable nature of the human spirit.