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Comfort Woman

About the E-Books

Author
Nora Okja Keller
Co-Author
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Translator
-
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published Year
1998
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > English and American literatures

Original Title
Comfort Woman
Romanization of Original
Comfort Woman
Original Language

English(English)

ISBN
9781101127674
Page
-
Series
OverDrive Read

About the Author

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  • Nora Okja Keller
  • Birth : 1966 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Nora Okja
  • Family Name : Keller
  • Korean Name : 노라 옥자 켈러
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
About the Original Work
Comfort Woman
  • Comfort Woman
  • Author : Nora Okja Keller
  • Published Year : 1998
  • English Title : Comfort Woman
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

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 bestseller
In 1995, Nora Okja Keller received the Pushcart Prize for "Mother Tongue", a piece that is part of Comfort Woman.

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