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This was not an easy book to read, yet I’m glad that I did. It’s a beautifully written tribute to Korean women who were taken from their homes during the Japanese occupation and forced to be “comfort women”, an inconceivably gentle phrase for the sex slaves they were made to be . It’s also a tribute Leggi tutto

I love when a story takes me to a place I've never heard of, especially an exotic location in the South Korean sea. But in 1943, that beauty was shadowed by the horrid history of war. Taking hundreds of thousands of lives - not just soldiers, but women who were kidnapped and offered up to soldiers t Leggi tutto

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Sometimes, old wounds need to be reopened to let them properly heal The white chrysanthemum – in Korea, the flower of the funeral, the flower of death. This story tells of death – perhaps not always death of the body; the spirit can die too. This book tells of the ‘comfort women’, women stolen from Ko Leggi tutto

Uma das maiores surpresas do ano, a obra é, em parte, ambientada na Coréia sob ocupação japonesa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial - um período que conhecia muito pouco. Hana, a personagem principal, nasceu em uma comunidade de mulheres que seguem uma tradição muito antiga, que remonta ao ano 434. Des Leggi tutto