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Comfort Woman Hardcover - 1997

by Nora Okja Keller


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Possessing a wisdom and maturity rarely found in a first novelist, Korean-American writer Nora Okja Keller tells a heartwrenching and enthralling tale in this, her literary debut. Comfort Woman is the story of Akiko, a Korean refugee of World War II, and Beccah, her daughter by an American missionary. The two women are living on the edge of society—and sanity—in Honolulu, plagued by Akiko's periodic encounters with the spirits of the dead, and by Beccah's struggles to reclaim her mother from her past. Slowly and painfully Akiko reveals her tragic story and the horrifying years she was forced to serve as a "comfort woman" to Japanese soldiers. As Beccah uncovers these truths, she discovers her own strength and the secret of the powers she herself possessed—the precious gifts her mother has given her.A San Francisco Chronicle bestsellerIn 1995, Nora Okja Keller received the Pushcart Prize for "Mother Tongue", a piece that is part of Comfort Woman.

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In the tradition of Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison, this astonishing first novel tells of a Korean comfort woman and her fierce love for her daughter. The book follows Beccah, a young Korean-American girl growing up in Hawaii, as she uncovers the secret of her mother's past.

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  • Title Comfort Woman
  • Author Nora Okja Keller
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 213
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking Books, New York
  • Date 1997-04-01
  • ISBN 9780670872695 / 0670872695
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.78 x 5.95 x 0.81 in (22.30 x 15.11 x 2.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96035458
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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