White chrysanthemum / Mary Lynn Bracht.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: New York : Random House Large Print, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First large print editionWhakaahuatanga: 460 pages (large print) : map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780525524243
- 052552424X
- 9781528867658
- 813/.6 23
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Large print | Eltham LibraryPlus Large print | Large print | BRAC (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2194920 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-460).
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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