Bibliograph

White chrysanthemum, a novel, Mary Lynn Bracht

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White chrysanthemum, a novel, Mary Lynn Bracht

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

White chrysanthemum

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Mary Lynn Bracht

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana 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. But haenyeo are women of power and strength. She will find her way home. South Korea, 2011. Emi has spent more than sixty years trying to forget the sacrifice her sister made, but she must confront the past to discover peace. Seeing the healing of her children and her country, can Emi move beyond the legacy of war to find forgiveness?

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