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9 New Books We Recommend This Week

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Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/books/review/9-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
Journal
The New York Times
Issued Date
December 20, 2018
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
New York
Book
-
Writer
Yoon Emily Jungmin

About the Author

  • Yoon Emily Jungmin
  • Birth : - ~ -
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Emily Jungmin
  • Family Name : Yoon
  • Korean Name : 윤정민
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
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  • English(English)

 Much of Yoon’s arresting debut memorializes the Korean “comfort women” who were forced into prostitution during World War II; it draws considerable power from the testimonies of actual survivors.“The book fixes attention on the conditions these women faced — injected with the arsenic compound salvarsan, offered anti-hemorrhagic agents made from corpses, left to die of infection,” our reviewer, BK Fischer, writes.

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