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White chrysanthemum / Mary Lynn Bracht.

Bracht, Mary Lynn, (author.).

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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.<br>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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  • ISBN: 9780735214439
  • ISBN: 0735214433
  • Physical Description: 305 pages : map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018]

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305).

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Subject:
Sisters > Fiction.
Pearl divers > Fiction.
Comfort women > Korea > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Korea > Fiction.
Korea > History > Japanese occupation, 1910-1945 > Fiction.
Genre:
War fiction.
Historical fiction.

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Jacksonville Main Library FIC BRACHT (Text) 36015000224978 Adult Fiction Available -
Richlands Branch Library FIC BRACHT (Text) 36015001298252 Adult Fiction Available -
Sneads Ferry Branch Library FIC BRACHT (Text) 36015001154273 Adult Fiction Available -

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