Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom, by Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland
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An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.
Born in the 1970s, Lucia Jang grew up in a common, rural North Korean household―her parents worked hard, she bowed to a photo of Kim Il-Sung every night, and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. However, there is nothing common about Jang. She is a woman of great emotional depth, courage, and resilience.
Happy to serve her country, Jang worked in a factory as a young woman. There, a man she thought was courting her raped her. Forced to marry him when she found herself pregnant, she continued to be abused by him. She managed to convince her family to let her return home, only to have her in-laws and parents sell her son without her knowledge for 300 won and two bars of soap. They had not wanted another mouth to feed.
By now it was the beginning of the famine of the 1990s that resulted in more than one million deaths. Driven by starvation―her family’s as well as her own―Jang illegally crossed the river to better-off China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice, pregnant the second time. She knew that, to keep the child, she had to leave North Korea. In a dramatic escape, she was smuggled with her newborn to China, fled to Mongolia under gunfire, and finally found refuge in South Korea before eventually settling in Canada.
With so few accounts by North Korean women and those from its rural areas, Jang's fascinating memoir helps us understand the lives of those many others who have no way to make their voices known.
--- Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom, by Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland- Amazon Sales Rank: #147964 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.60" h x 1.10" w x 6.50" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Review “Have the courage to read this book and listen to a clear, honest voice from the shadows and darkness that dissolve humanity.” (Ha Jin, National Book Award winner of Waiting)
About the Author Lucia Jang is a refugee from North Korea who lives in Toronto.Susan McClelland is an award-winning journalist and recipient of the 2005 Amnesty International Media Award.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Horror, hope, and the survival of the human spirit By Garrett Zecker This harrowing, first-person account of their struggles escaping from the oppressive North Korean regime in the face of the change from Un to Il is absolutely astonishing in its scope and shameless emotional resonance. What I have found in many accounts of the sheltered hermit kingdom is the technical specifications of its workhouses, the sheer horrific numbers of the starving and oppressed, and the bizarre antics of their government. What rarely escapes, due to fear of the punishment of the families of those who have emigrated, are the individual first-person stories and narratives that are so much more meaningful and gravitational than any data point could ever be.What I garnered from this book is the brutality, the sheer technical aspects of how people manage to escape, and what it looks like when they attempt it on an emotional, and familial level. It sounds absolutely awful, as does the actual inside narrative of the prisons and how babies are routinely used to oil the failing machine that is the government. With so many people starving, with such humiliation and utter despair, there is no question that the end of this regime will come from within in the form of a revolution not unlike that which took down the oppressive and French government in 1792, opening up a new era of health, prosperity, and fraternity. For now, however, the horrors and crimes against the people will continue until there is an organized resistance. Those crimes outlined in this book are nauseating and horrible, especially considering that the only way out is the equally deplorable human trafficking that the Chinese are having difficulty stopping.It is no wonder that the oral histories are the ones that are most punishable in terms of getting out and written down... They may very well hold the power for lasting recognition of the horrors this dictatorship has perpetrated for the last sixty years. I hope more voices make it out, and among one another. An excellent book that was translated by the Canadian naturalization lawyer of the protagonist, this letter to her son to be read in the future is a testament to the survival of the human spirit in the most appalling conditions.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Poignant, Sad, and Triumphant By Philip, Dread Pirate Very intense read conveyed authentically by the narrator. Straddles the line between anxious and breathless, it is amazing what some people can live through.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. heartbreaking By maggs If you've ever felt depressed or hopeless you should read this book and feel better because your "problems" will seem like blessings in comparison with what Jang endured. It is amazing, gut wrenching, emotionally grueling yet inspirational memoir. My prayers for the people of North Korea, especially the women and children. God bless Jang for sharing her own arduous journey.
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