Every Falling Star

The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

Narrated by: David Shih

Author: Susan McClelland, Sungju Lee

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Format
Digital Audiobook

Duration
09:24.06

Published: 13th September 2016

Digital Audiobook

$26.99

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Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his "brothers"; to be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young listeners to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.