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Oh, omniscient narration, please don't ever die out!
This is a family saga above all, and I don't think it's the book to convert readers who don't already like the long sprawl and sometimes maddening focus of family sagas, but I enjoyed it a lot. It focuses on ethnic Koreans in Japan during the 20th century, and one of the book's strengths, I thought, was its diversity in characters and a whole range of ways that ordinary people managed to live through (or in some cases, not make it through) hist ...more
This is a family saga above all, and I don't think it's the book to convert readers who don't already like the long sprawl and sometimes maddening focus of family sagas, but I enjoyed it a lot. It focuses on ethnic Koreans in Japan during the 20th century, and one of the book's strengths, I thought, was its diversity in characters and a whole range of ways that ordinary people managed to live through (or in some cases, not make it through) hist ...more
I loved this historical saga about ethnic Koreans in Japan. From visiting Korea I knew something about the Japanese invasions and colonisation there, but I never thought much about what life would have been like for Korean people who migrated to Japan. So this was fascinating for me.
Sunja is seduced by a rich man who visits her village on an island off the south coast of Korea in the 1930s. Pregnant and discovering that he is married, she refuses his offer to be his kept mistress and instead mar ...more
Sunja is seduced by a rich man who visits her village on an island off the south coast of Korea in the 1930s. Pregnant and discovering that he is married, she refuses his offer to be his kept mistress and instead mar ...more
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