The release date for the English version of 'A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea' by
Masaji Ishikawa is Jan 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The terrifying real account of one man's life under one of the most cruel totalitarian regimes in the world—North Korea—and his eventual escape.
Masaji Ishikawa, who is half Japanese and half Korean, has felt like a man without a nation his whole life. When Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, his family emigrated from Japan to North Korea and unintentionally joined the lowest social tier, which only made him feel worse. His father, a native of Korea, was drawn to the new communist nation by promises of plenty of job, a better social standing for his kids, and an education. However, their new existence was not at much utopian in actuality.
Ishikawa describes in this book, which has been translated from the original Japanese, his turbulent youth, the horrific thirty-six years he spent living under an oppressive totalitarian dictatorship, and the difficulties he had returning to Japan after almost leaving North Korea alive. In addition to being a startling depiction of life in the nation, A River in Darkness is a monument to the worth and tenacity of the human spirit.