The book is a breezy read, but never simple. Keller does an excellent job weaving the different pieces of the story together. It's the relationship between Akiko/ Soon Hyo and her daughter Beccah that make something that is "just" history into something vital, human, and immediate.įrom the viewpoint of someone who writes, the decision to have Akiko/ Soon Hyo tell her story from her own perspective is very impressive, and was probably the hardest to write. This aspect of the book shines as the most essential part of the story, and it is made that much more stronger by our ability to empathize with Beccah's struggles through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. But for me, the strongest narrative element is the relationship between Beccah and her mother. The author is also skilled at examining what happens to bodies and their spirits when faced with these terrible incidences. The author uses it skillfully to examine issue of trauma, the meanings of names and the systematic violence that occurs when a culture is dominated by an outside force. The issue of history is certainly important in this book, and provides it with a very unique backdrop. The issue of the enslavement of Korean women to service Japanese soldiers during the war is at once a catalyst, a terrible haunting force, and the barrier to a better understanding of family lineage.
The comfort women issue-perhaps one of the most contentious and controversial subjects in Japanese-Korean relations-is the backdrop of this amazing novel. Urn:oclc:809146096 Republisher_date 20120429032123 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120421055656 Scanner Book that is about Far More than just History O元297237W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.98 Pages 234 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1101127678
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