White Chrysanthemum
$38.47
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
18 January 2022
Summary
‘Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.’
This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from free diving off the southernmost tip of Korea. One day Hana sees a Japanese soldier heading for where Emi is guarding the day’s catch on the beach. Saving her sister, Hana herself is captured and forced to become a “comfort woman” in a Japanese military brothel.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784877514 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784877514 |
| Author: | Mary Lynn Bracht |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 18 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Vintage Heroines |
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About The Author
Mary Lynn Bracht
Mary Lynn Bracht is an American author of Korean descent who now lives in London. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. She grew up in a large ex-pat community of women who came of age in post-war South Korea. In 2002 Bracht visited her mother’s childhood village, and it was during this trip she first learned of the ‘Comfort Women’ captured and set up in brothels for the Japanese military. White Chrysanthemum is her first novel.
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