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“One Left” is a landmark Korean novel about one former Comfort Woman who is now in her 90s and determined to share her story

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“One Left” is a landmark Korean novel about one former Comfort Woman who is now in her 90s and determined to share her story
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https://iexaminer.org/one-left-is-a-landmark-korean-novel-about-one-former-comfort-woman-who-is-now-in-her-90s-and-determined-to-share-her-story-2/
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iexaminer
Issued Date
March 23, 2021
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
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Book
One Left
Writer
Kim Soom
Translator
Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton

About the Author

Kim Soom
  • Kim Soom
  • Birth : 1974 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : 숨
  • Family Name : 김
  • Korean Name : 김숨
  • ISNI : 0000000052953197
  • Works : 12
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Throughout the course of her life, the protagonist of Kim Soom’s One Left has been known by many names. In the novel, however, she is simply “she” or “the woman,” an unremarkable, single, 93-year old woman, waiting away her final days. On television one day, she hears that the “last one” is dying — the last known woman to have been kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese army during the Pacific War. The last so-called comfort woman. Anxiously, she scans her memory, reciting the names of those who she knew during her own time at a Manchurian comfort station. Like a chant, she has recited these names for 70 years, lest she forget even one of these women.

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