Stars between the Sun and Moon : one woman's life in North Korea and escape to freedom

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Label

Stars between the Sun and Moon : one woman's life in North Korea and escape to freedom

Title remainder

one woman's life in North Korea and escape to freedom

Statement of responsibility

Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland

Creator

• trueJang, Lucia

Contributor

• McClelland, Susan

Subject

• Biography
• Escapes -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century
• Famines
• Famines -- Social aspects -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century
• Forced labor
• Human trafficking
• Jang, Lucia
• Jang, Lucia -- Family
• Korea (North)
• Korea (North) -- History -- 1948-1994 -- Biography
• Mother and child -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century
• Political prisoners -- Korea (North) -- Biography
• Social conditions
• Survival -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century
• Women -- Korea (North) -- Biography
• Women -- Korea (North) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Women prisoners
• Abused women

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

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 rationed rice and a small garden. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. But it was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine resulting in more than a million deaths. In this harsh time, 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 stunning demonstration of love and courage reflects the range of experiences many North Korean women have endured--loss of a child, starvation, imprisonment, and trafficking"--Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 951.9304/3092
• B

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction