{"product_id":"book-bs2a","title":"Stars between the Sun and Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHappy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamscape","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49385950249264,"sku":"BDbs2a","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [ZE]","offer_id":49385950282032,"sku":"ZEbs2a","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD [ZM]","offer_id":49385950314800,"sku":"ZMbs2a","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/144868-bs2a-Square.jpg?v=1735151114","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bs2a","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}