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Stars between the sun and moon, one woman's life in North Korea and escape to freedom, Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland ; with an afterword by Stephan Haggard

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Stars between the sun and moon, one woman's life in North Korea and escape to freedom, Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland ; with an afterword by Stephan Haggard
Language
eng
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autobiography
Main title
Stars between the sun and moon
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sound recording
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Oclc number
918225636
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Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland ; with an afterword by Stephan Haggard
Sub title
one woman's life in North Korea and escape to freedom
Summary
An incredible memoir of North Korea by a woman who defied the government to keep her family alive. -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, who 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
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