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Comfort Woman

Comfort Woman
Original Title
Comfort Woman
Title Romanization
Comfort Woman
English Title(Printed)
Comfort Woman
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > English and American literatures

Author
Nora Okja Keller
Co-Author
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Published Year
1998
Publisher
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ISBN
9780140263350
Main Characters
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Subject/Theme
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  • Nora Okja Keller
  • Birth : 1966 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Nora Okja
  • Family Name : Keller
  • Korean Name : 노라 옥자 켈러
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
Published Year Publisher Country Vendor
1998 Penguin Publishing Group UNITED STATES OverDrive
Descriptions(Languages 1)
  • English(English)

Possessing a wisdom and maturity rarely found in a first novelist, Korean-American writer Nora Okja Keller tells a heartwrenching and enthralling tale in this, her literary debut. Comfort Woman is the story of Akiko, a Korean refugee of World War II, and Beccah, her daughter by an American missionary. The two women are living on the edge of society—and sanity—in Honolulu, plagued by Akiko's periodic encounters with the spirits of the dead, and by Beccah's struggles to reclaim her mother from her past. Slowly and painfully Akiko reveals her tragic story and the horrifying years she was forced to serve as a "comfort woman" to Japanese soldiers. As Beccah uncovers these truths, she discovers her own strength and the secret of the powers she herself possessed—the precious gifts her mother has given her.

Source : https://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Woman-Nora-Okja-Keller/dp/0140263357

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