![]() ![]() Drawn partly from Choi's own experiences, her debut novel is a sensitive and honest portrayal of amazing courage. When war's end brings only a new type of domination-from the Russian communists-Sookan and her younger brother must make a harrowing escape across the 38th parallel after their mother has been detained at a Russian checkpoint. ![]() Sookan watches her people-forced to renounce their native ways-become increasingly angry and humiliated. ![]() Left behind while her resistance-fighter father hides in Manchuria and her older brothers toil in Japanese labor camps, Sookan and her remaining family members run a sock factory for the war effort, bolstered only by the dream that the fighting will soon cease. In 1945, 10-year-old Sookan's homeland of North Korea is occupied by the Japanese. ![]()
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