Zelanator reviewed A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa
"Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a …
Review of 'A river in darkness' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Heartbreaking Tale From a Closed World
A truly heartrending tale of a young boy who moved to North Korea during the 1960s from Japan. His father, a native Korean, hoped to secure for his family the promises of prosperity that the communist government in NK disseminated through its propaganda arm in Japan. What followed were thirty-six years of unimaginable hardship, suffering, and death. An important reminder of the human rights violations that continue inside North Korea in a very intimate and personal form.