A New York Times Bestseller And Amazon Charts Most Read And Most Sold Book.a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee For Memoir & Autobiography.the Harrowing True Story Of One Mans Life Inand Subsequent Escape Fromnorth Korea, One Of The Worlds Most Brutal Totalitarian Regimes.half-korean, Half-japanese, Masaji Ishikawa Has Spent His Whole Life Feeling Like A Man Without A Country. This Feeling Only Deepened When His Family Moved From Japan To North Korea When Ishikawa Was Just Thirteen Years Old, And Unwittingly Became Members Of The Lowest Social Caste. His Father, Himself A Korean National, Was Lured To The New Communist Country By Promises Of Abundant Work, Education For His Children, And A Higher Station In Society.