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Comfort woman / Nora Okja Keller.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.E38574 C66 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keller, Nora Okja.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korean Americans--Hawaii--Fiction.
- Korean Americans.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Hawaii.
- Hawaii--Fiction.
- Korean Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 213 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 1997.
- Summary:
- A Korean woman's life as a sex slave for the Japanese during World War II. The novel is narrated in part by the mother, in part by her American daughter who is a newspaper reporter in Hawaii. Not until her mother's death did the daughter learn what terrible experiences lay behind the screams her mother uttered in her dreams. A first novel by a Korean-American.
- ISBN:
- 0670872695
- OCLC:
- 35548807
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