A River in Darkness

This gripping memoir tells the true story of a man's life in and escape from North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes. Half-Korean and half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa's family unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste when they moved to North Korea for a promised better life. Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing dictatorship. A River in Darkness offers a shocking portrait of life inside the country and a testament to the strength of the human spirit.