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Author Bracht, Mary Lynn, author.

Title White chrysanthemum / Mary Lynn Bracht.

Publication Info. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2018]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1816567~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F BRACHT    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F BRACHT    AVAILABLE
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Description 305 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Summary 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?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305).
Subject Sisters -- Fiction.
Comfort women -- Korea -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Korea -- Fiction.
Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945 -- Fiction.
Genre War stories.
ISBN 9780735214439 (hardcover)
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