Stars Between the Sun and Moon, Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland
Stars Between the Sun and Moon, Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon
One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

Author: Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland

Narrator: Janet Song

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/05/2015

Synopsis

Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally crossing the river to China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice. After giving birth to a second child, which the government ordered to be killed, she escaped with him, fleeing under gunfire across the Chinese border. This demonstration of love and courage reflects the range of experiences many North Korean women have endured.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mme

I have no idea how this woman survived everything she did, nor how she could bear to relive it to write this memoir. Circumstances created by the system of government in North Korea render most people's lives, if they were related like a biography, a litany of human rights violations. Starvation, in......more

Goodreads review by Friar Stebin

We all know about South Korea. Many of my young friends love Korean film stars very much. They imitate their dress code, the way of behaviour, some of them even speak Korean. But, what about North Korea, O! No, we know very little about it. It’s really, really secret. All the secrets of North Korea......more

Goodreads review by Michaela

Nechápem, ako to dokázala prežiť. Aj s dieťaťom! Toľkokrát utiekla a toľkokrát ju chytili. Útek zo Severnej Kórei sa nepodarí len tak. Opustiť rodinu je najťažšie. Lenže keď máte štátom (aj susedmi) kontrolovaný život, istý nemenmý sociálny status, (to kastovníctvo je príšerné), z ktorého sa nemáš š......more

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