Books
by Lee Chang-Rae
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A Gesture Life |
'Doc' Hata, a Japanese, is a revered elder in a small town in the States. The novel explores his relationships with his adopted daughter and the American woman he almost loved together with his repressed memories of K, the Korean girl who was forced to be one of the 'comfort women' pressed into sexual services during the Second World War. I had to keep turning the pages even though some passages were almost unbearable.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 5 October 2000) |
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