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White chrysanthemum  Cover Image Book Book

White chrysanthemum / Mary Lynn Bracht.

Bracht, Mary Lynn, (author.).

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?-- Adapted from book jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780735214446
  • ISBN: 0735214441
  • Physical Description: 300 pages : map ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First G.P. Putnam's Sons trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes a conversation with Mary Lynn Bracht and a discussion guide.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-300).
Subject: Sisters > Fiction.
Comfort women > Korea > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Korea > Fiction.
Korea > History > Japanese occupation, 1910-1945 > Fiction.
Pearl divers > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
War fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lackawanna County Library System.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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