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Year of Impossible Goodbyes

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ISBN-10: 0440407591

ISBN-13: 9780440407591

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sook Nyul Choi, Sook Nyul Choi

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Description:

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…    
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Book details

List price: $7.99
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.13" wide x 7.62" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English