White Chrysanthemum

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In the spirit of Lilac Girls, the heartbreaking history of Korea is brought to life in this deeply moving and redemptive debut that follows two sisters separated by World War II.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 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 Suspenseful, hopeful, and ultimately redemptive, White Chrysanthemum tells a story of two sisters whose love for each other is strong enough to triumph over the grim evils of war. Best Read [ White Chrysanthemum ] by [ Mary Lynn Bracht ] – kino-fada.fr This was not an easy book to read, yet I m glad that I did It s a beautifully written tribute to Korean women who were taken from their homes during the Japanese occupation and forced to be comfort women , an inconceivably gentle phrase for the sex slaves they were made to be It s also a tribute and a remembrance as the author points out in her note, to all women around the world subjected to rape during wartime These horrific events of barbaric treatment, this story of what happened to the This was not an easy book to read, yet I m glad that I did It s a beautifully written tribute to Korean women who were taken from their homes during the Japanese occupation and forced to be comfort women , an inconceivably gentle phrase for the sex slaves they were made to be It s also a tribute and a remembrance as the author points out in her note, to all women around the world subjected to rape during wartime These horrific events of barbaric treatment, this story of what happened to these women is depicted through the lives of two sisters Their separate narratives are told decades apart, but they each are very much a part of one another s thoughts and dreams and memories Hana, the older sister b...I love when a story takes me to a place I ve never heard of, especially an exotic location in the South Korean sea But in 1943, that beauty was shadowed by the horrid history of war Taking hundreds of thousands of lives not just soldiers, but women who were kidnapped and offered up to soldiers to be comfort women to be raped, humiliated and often murdered all in the na...This is a book with very hard to read subject matter It is a beautiful book and an ugly book,and a book based on historical truisms It is also about historical events of which I had no knowledge.Hana comes from a long line of strong women who are called haenyo, they dive for a living, capturing the bottom feeders of sea creatures, which will be sold at the market Emi, her younger sister, still not a strong enough swimmer, stays on shore to guard the catch The Japanese are the occupiers of So This is a book with very hard to read subject matter It is a beautiful book and an ugly book,and a book based on historical truisms It is also about histori...A deeply moving and beautifully written historical fiction novel of human resilience and enduring love of sisters, a story about the Korean comfort women prostituted by Japanese soldiers in World War II and two sisters separated as young girls but the bond of sisters remains strong and they never strop thinking about each other..This was an eye opening and haunting debut novel by Mary Lynn Brecht and while fictional it is based on real life events that are harrowing and disturbing in places to A deeply moving and beautifully written historical fiction novel of human resilience and enduring love of sisters, a story about the Korean comfort women prostituted by Japanese soldiers in World War II and two sisters separated as young girls but the bond of sisters remains strong and they never strop thinking about each other..This was an eye opening and haunting debut novel by Mary Lynn Brecht and while fictional it is based on real life events that are harrowing and disturbing in places to read but I always remind myself that I only have to read abou...Powerfully heartbreaking I am always so appreciative of authors that bring remarkable stories like this to the forefront How many stories like Hanna s exist The list of women suffering wartime rape is long and will continue to grow unless we include women s wartime suffering in history books, commemorate the atrocities...Subject matter in this novel was heartbreaking to read but paints a legitimate picture of the suffering of Koreans by the Japanese during WWII and post war The story alternatively told told from Hana and Emi s perspectives, sisters who were ripped apart from one another at a young age is powerful Hana s story begins in 1943 as a young girl taken by Japanese soldiers to be used as a sex slave Emi s story in 2011, as an older woman carrying the guilt of Hana s disappearance and trying to come t Subject matter in this novel was heartbreaking to read but paints a legitimate picture of the suffering of Koreans by the Japanese during WWII and post war The story alternatively told told from Hana and Emi s perspectives, sisters who were ripped apart from one another at a young age is powerful Hana s story begins in 1943 as a young girl taken by Japanese soldiers to be used as a sex slave Emi s story in 2011, as an older woman carrying the guilt of Hana s disappearance and trying to come to terms with the past.The sisters interwoven narratives relating to this historic atrocity are a sobering reminder of sins of the past and relevance to the prese...I have read many, many books about WWII but this is a part of that history that was new for me Ms Bracht has composed a novel about the suffering of the Koreans during WWII and it is well researched, well written but entirely heartbreaking.The story is about two sisters, Hana and Emiko who live on an island, Jeju, off of the coast of Korea The novel opens beautifully with Hana being induced as a Haenyeo , a woman who dives expertly to sustain her family It is a difficult but peaceful life a I have read many, many books about WWII but this is a part of that history that was new for me Ms Bracht has composed a novel about the suffering of the Koreans during WWII and it is well researched, well written but entirely heartbreaking.The story is about two sisters, Hana and Emiko who live on an island, Jeju, off of the coast of Korea The novel opens beautifully with Hana being induced as a Haenyeo , a woman who dives expertly to sustain her family It is a difficult but peaceful life and the sisters have known nothing else.Unfortunately the Japanese also know about these secluded women and have come to the island to forcibly take the young women as their slaves When Hana sees a Japanese soldier on the shores as she is diving she shows herself, rather than hide, to protect her younger sister Emi from the fate that she fears will b...Sometimes, old wounds need to be reopened to let them properly healThe white chrysanthemum in Korea, the flower of the funeral, the flower of death This story tells of death perhaps not always death of the body the spirit can die too.This book tells of the comfort women , women stolen from Korea to satisfy the sexual needs of the Japanese invaders Somehow the Japanese think that sexually satisfied men will make better warriors.This b... In March 2016 I travelled to Seoul to see Pyeonghwabi the Statute of Peace It was a sort of pilgrimage for me to journey half way across the world to set my eyes on the symbol representing, for me, wartime rape not only of Korean women and girls, but of all women and girls the world over Uganda, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Myanmar, Yugoslavia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palenstine andThe list of women suffering war time rape is long and will continue to grow unless we include women s warti In March 2016 I travelled to Seoul to see Pyeonghwabi the Statute of Peace It was a sort of pilgrimage for me to journey half way across the world to set m...A heartbreaking tale of two sisters beginning in 1943 as one of the sisters is kidnapped by a Japanese solider in occupied Korea Forced into sexual slavery she served as a Comfort Woman to members of the Japanese military The sister left behind spends the remainder of her life looking for her stolen sibling The writing is good, the story well researched but some passages will be tough for mild mannered book clubbers An important part of history that many of us are unaware and I thank the aut A heartbreaking tale of two sisters beginning in 1943 as one of the sisters is kidnapped by a Japanese solider in occupied Korea Forced into sexual slavery she served as a Comfort Woman to members of the Japanese military The sister left behind spends the remainder of her life looking for her stolen sibling The writing is good, the story well researched but some passages will be tough for mild mannered book clubbers An impor...

White Chrysanthemum
  • English
  • 18 August 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 320 pages
  • 052549765X
  • Mary Lynn Bracht
  • White Chrysanthemum