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Year of impossible goodbyes

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Year of Impossible Goodbyes

  • Author(s)

    Sook Nyul Choi최숙렬

  • Translator(s)

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  • Publisher

    Yearling Books Yearling Books

  • Country

    UNITED KINGDOM

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    1991

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 소설

  • Target User

    Young adult 청소년

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

Description 작품 소개

It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to the family, but he cannot break their spirit. Sookan's father is with the resistance movement in Manchuria and her older brothers have been sent away to labor camps. Her mother is forced to supervise a sock factory and Sookan herself must wear a uniform and attend a Japanese school.Then the war ends. Out come the colorful Korean silks and bags of white rice. But Communist Russian troops have taken control of North Korea and once again the family is suppressed. Sookan and her family know their only hope for freedom lies in a dangerous escape to Americancontrolled South Korea.Reference : Yearling Books. "Year of impossible goodbyes", https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/27339/year-of-impossible-goodbyes-by-sook-nyul-choi/9780440407591. accessed 27 Oct 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Sook Nyul Choi

Sook Nyul Choi최숙렬

It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to the family, but he cannot break their spirit. Sookan's father is with the resistance movement in Manchuria and her older brothers have been sent away to labor camps. Her mother is forced to supervise a sock factory and Sookan herself must wear a uniform and attend a Japanese school.Then the war ends. Out come the colorful Korean silks and bags of white rice. But Communist Russian troops have taken control of North Korea and once again the family is suppressed. Sookan and her family know their only hope for freedom lies in a dangerous escape to Americancontrolled South Korea.Reference : Yearling Books. "Year of impossible goodbyes", https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/27339/year-of-impossible-goodbyes-by-sook-nyul-choi/9780440407591. accessed 27 Oct 2023.

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