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MiJa: An emotional journey through twentieth-century Korea
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ISBN10: 1916600018
ISBN13: 9781916600010
Publisher: Bookmark Publications
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 418
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781916600010
Publisher: Bookmark Publications
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 418
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Mun-gyeong, 1935. Choi MiJa is getting ready for her first day at the Elementary Good Citizen School in Japanese occupied Korea. The Choi family are wealthy landowners and have been for nineteen generations, but all that is about to change. Their privileged lifestyle will soon disappear forever, and burgeoning love is put on hold as the family have to endure hardship and loss of the Japanese Occupation, the Second World War, and the Korean War. When peace finally arrives, there is great hope for the future, and Korea has a chance to build a just and fair society. Would it succeed?
MiJa is a timeless story that sweeps the reader from the gated town of Mun-gyeong, a mountain pass so high that even the birds cannot fly through it, to the besieged war-torn city of Pusan where they have to live in the shantytown of Ami Dong built from reused gravestones. One day MiJa finds herself in the remote fishing port of Mukho, on the border with North Korea, where she joins the Hae-nyeo: a matriarchal group of fisherwomen.MiJa is a tale of un-blossomed love, female sacrifice, and how a family's hopes and dreams are crushed by the weight of historical events that still resonate in modern-day Korea.
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