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TEN THOUSAND SORROWS: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan.
by Kim, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385496338
- ISBN 13
- 9780385496339
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About This Item
New York:: Doubleday,, (2000.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. As a young child she witnessed the murder of her mother by her grandfather and uncle because she had laid with an American soldier and had, not just a bastard, but but a honhyol--a mixed-race child, considered worth less than nothing, and brought dishonor on the family. Left at a Christian orphanage in postwar Seoul , adopted by a childless Fundamentalist pastor and his wife but constantly reminded that she wasn't good enough, she was married to an abusive and controlling man, and only after the birth of her daughter, was she then finally was able to save herself and her daughter. 228 pp.
Synopsis
Elizabeth Kim is the city desk editor for the Marin Independent Journal . She lives in San Rafael, California.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37915
- Title
- TEN THOUSAND SORROWS: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan.
- Author
- Kim, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385496338
- ISBN 13
- 9780385496339
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2000.)
- Keywords
- mixed race, adoption, autobiography, california,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian and Asian American;
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