Year of Impossible Goodbyes Paperback - 1993
by Sook Nyul Choi
It is 1945, and life has been turned upside-down for ten-year-old Sookan and her family. As the Japanese military occupy North Korea, police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to Sookan's family, but he cannot break their spirit. The war ends, but new suppression starts, and Sookan's family knows their only hope is a dangerous escape to South Korea. ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
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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.
Here is the incredible story of one family's love for each other and their determination to risk everything to find freedom.
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- Title Year of Impossible Goodbyes
- Author Sook Nyul Choi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yearling Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-01-01
- ISBN 9780440407591 / 0440407591
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.45 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 1.14 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 840
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Korean
- Library of Congress subjects Korea - History - 1945-
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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