Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Publisher: Yearling (A)
169 pages
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
In 1945, 10-year-old Sookan's homeland of North Korea is occupied by the
Japanese. 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. Sookan
watches her people--forced to renounce their native ways--become
increasingly angry and humiliated. 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. Drawn partly
from Choi's own experiences, her debut novel is a sensitive and honest
portrayal of amazing courage. In clear, graceful prose, she describes a
sad period of history that is astonishing in its horror and
heart-wrenching in its truth. Readers cannot fail to be uplifted by this
account of the triumph of the human spirit in an unjust world.
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