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Amazon pulled my review because I DIRECTLY QUOTED THE AUTHOR WORD FOR WORD. From Amazon:<<<<<We encourage customer content on the Amazon.com website, both positive and negative. However, your recent contribution doesn't comply with our content guidelines. We don't allow reviews that promote or express intolerance for people belonging to identity groups. If this continues, we'll remove your posting privileges from your account in accordance with our Conditions of Use. I'd recommend submitting your review again, restricting your comments to the item. For your convenience, I've included your original Review below: "And now? Now I have just one thing left. My only true possession. I'm sorry to say that it's bitterness. Bitterness at the cruelty of life." If this book were historical fiction it would have been easy to dismiss the more agonizing details of Masaji Ishikawa's memoir as exaggeration or artistic license, but this all happened. This man's life was stolen from him, and worse than that, he had basic human dignity stripped and replaced with starvation, fear and despair. Despair at being tricked into "emigrating" to his fathers homeland. And yet his father wasn't even born in North Korea but rather the South. Despair at having no true place to call home, EVER. Despair at trying hard in school only to be told that university would never have been attainable for Japanese EXPLETIVE (here is where I apparently committed the sin of intolerance for people belonging to identity groups, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE BOOK, and had a human looked at it they would have seen this, instead a special snowflake reported this as abuse to get my review booted). The author was of Japanese descent and upon moving to North Korean with his Korean father he was treated with absolute disdain. His entire adult life was spent with a gnawing hunger both physically, emotionally and spiritually. It is absolutely scary to read this memoir knowing that we are talking about mass starvation going only barely a few decades ago. How many different nations are starving their own today. A truly bleak and harrowing life, somehow wonderfully written and translated. Can I recommend you reading this as well? YES. You may have to put the book down and reflect at how spectacularly blessed you are right now. You may have to put the book down and reflect on how a human spirit could withstand such and onslaught and continue on. How can a human go on living when life is not valued and just one more day seems useless at best. GIRD YOUR LOINS AND CHOOSE THIS BOOK. It is very tough to reading the sorrow and misery of others (especially when the happily ever after has been starved to death). This book will cause soul searching and probably cause a surge in gratitude and also shame for simply having taking "this life" for granted Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. "People talk about God. Although I can't see him myself, I still pray for a happy ending." I hope that Mr. Ishikawa finds the happy ending that he prays for. From Amazon<<<<<Please take a look at our Community Guidelines for information about acceptable content:>>>>