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Some made it to the next city but died afterwards or were found and killed by soldiers. Considering the poverty of Northern Koreans, we learn that it was very hard and dangerous to go pretty much anywhere. So we witness North Koreans trying to flee to Southern Korea. They kill everybody on their path and treat people as things. Korean Communists are shown as pitiless, violent, and immoral men. Throughout their journey, we see how they struggled to escape diseases, death, and rape. They took few of their belongings, a little money, and some provisions. Their hometown located in Northern Korea, when the invasion began, they had to leave and try to go to a safer place. The major part of the book is about the way this young girl, her sister and her mother escaped death while running away from the Korean communist army.

They sought refuge on the other side of the sea but found out that their family had also been killed. While reading this story we learn about the historic facts but we first of all learn about this poor Korean family who was forced to leave their hometown to go to Japan. It commemorates all the dangerous risks they had to take as a family to overcome the Korean War.

Yoko Kawashima wrote this book for her sister.

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