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White chrysanthemum / Mary Lynn Bracht.

by Bracht, Mary Lynn.

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Random House Large Print, [2018]

Sisters -- Fiction.

Comfort women -- Korea -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Korea -- Fiction.

Pearl divers -- Fiction.

Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945 -- Fiction.

9780525524243 (large print trade pbk.)

First large print edition.

460 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.

Korea, 1943, under Japanese occupation: As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, Hana enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day she 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. South Korea, 2011: Emi has spent more than sixty years trying to forget the sacrifice her sister made. Seeing the healing of her children and her country, can Emi move beyond the legacy of war to find forgiveness?--Adapted from book jacket.

Historical fiction.

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