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Comfort Woman

Comfort Woman

Keller, Nora Okja

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0140263357
ISBN13: 9780140263350
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 1 1998
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.76
Language: English
Powerful...a poignant and powerful debut. -- The Los Angeles Times

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.

A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller

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