White chrysanthemum / Mary Lynn Bracht
- Author
- Bracht, Mary Lynn
- Published
- New York, New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Physical Description
- 305 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Summary
- Korea, 1943, under Japanese occupation: As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, Hana enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day she saves her younger sister from a Japanese soldier and is herself captured and transported to Manchuria. There she is forced to become a 'comfort woman' in a Japanese military brothel. South Korea, 2011: Emi has spent more than sixty years trying to forget the sacrifice her sister made. Seeing the healing of her children and her country, can Emi move beyond the legacy of war to find forgiveness?--
- Subject(s)
- Japanese Occupation of Korea (1910-1945)
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1910-1945
- Sisters—Fiction
- Comfort women—Korea—Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945—Women—Korea—Fiction
- Pearl divers—Fiction
- FICTION—Asian American
- FICTION—Coming of Age
- FICTION—Historical
- Comfort women
- Pearl divers
- Sisters
- Women
- Korea—History—Japanese occupation, 1910-1945—Fiction
- Korea
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780735214439 (hardcover)
0735214433 (hardcover)
052552424X (L.P.; pbk.)
9780525524243 (L.P.; pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305).
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