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06.15: Joseph Kim
2015-05-18 22:04:43| Powells Books Events Calendar
Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy's normal life until he was five. Then disaster struck: the first wave of the Great Famine, a long, terrible ordeal that killed millions, including his father, and sent others, like his mother and only sister, on desperate escape routes into China. Alone on the streets, Kim learned to beg and steal. Finally, in desperation, he too crossed a frozen river to escape to China. There a kindly Christian woman took him in, kept him hidden from the authorities, and gave him hope. Soon, he was spirited to the American consulate and became one of just a handful of North Koreans to be brought to the U.S. as refugees. Kim's Under the Same Sky (Houghton Mifflin) is an unforgettable story of suffering and redemption.
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