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WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM
It is 1943 in Japanese occupied Korea, two sisters are growing up within the Haenyeo community on Jeju Island. The Haenyeo women are famed for their diving skills, theirs is the rare community were women are the breadwinners.
The elder sister, Hana, is out diving one day with their mother while her younger sister plays on the beach. When she sees Japanese soldiers approaching, she swims back to shore to protect her sister and is abducted in her place. Hana is transported to a Japanese army base in China, set up in a Comfort Station and given a new Japanese name, Sakura. She is to be a Comfort Women. Comfort stations were brothels for the Japanese soldiers, Comfort Women their unwilling prostitutes.
WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM moves between 1943 and modern day South Korea to tell the story of two sisters separated by war. Historians believe up to 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during Japan's annexation of Korea. Only 46 Comfort Women are alive today and there have only been a handful of books published previously that try to tell their stories. In December 2015 South Korea and Japan reached an agreement over the issue of Comfort Women. Japan has offered South Korea terms, one of which is the removal of the Peace Memorial erected in Seoul in front of the Japanese Embassy in 2011 (the time at which the modern day strand of this novel is set). This would be a denial of women's history in South Korea. The statue is a symbol representing wartime rape of not only Korean women and girls, but of all women and girls the world over: Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, to name but a few. The list of women suffering wartime rape is long and will continue to grow unless stories are told of women's wartime suffering.
WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM is a sweeping, page-turner of a novel with real commercial potential - perfect for reading groups. It will appeal to fans of 'Memoirs of a Geisha' and Khaled Hosseini's novels.
Mary Lynn Bracht is an American author of Korean descent who has lived in London with her family for over ten years. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck in 2015. Mary grew up in a large ex-pat community of South Korean women in a small town in Central Texas where she was hugely influenced by the hardships her mother, and the many women like her, suffered growing up in post-war South Korea. In 2002 Mary visited her mother's childhood village, and it was during this trip she first learned of the Comfort Women.
UND ueBER MIR DAS MEER
Deutsch von Elke Link
[HC Limes 09/18]
The elder sister, Hana, is out diving one day with their mother while her younger sister plays on the beach. When she sees Japanese soldiers approaching, she swims back to shore to protect her sister and is abducted in her place. Hana is transported to a Japanese army base in China, set up in a Comfort Station and given a new Japanese name, Sakura. She is to be a Comfort Women. Comfort stations were brothels for the Japanese soldiers, Comfort Women their unwilling prostitutes.
WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM moves between 1943 and modern day South Korea to tell the story of two sisters separated by war. Historians believe up to 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during Japan's annexation of Korea. Only 46 Comfort Women are alive today and there have only been a handful of books published previously that try to tell their stories. In December 2015 South Korea and Japan reached an agreement over the issue of Comfort Women. Japan has offered South Korea terms, one of which is the removal of the Peace Memorial erected in Seoul in front of the Japanese Embassy in 2011 (the time at which the modern day strand of this novel is set). This would be a denial of women's history in South Korea. The statue is a symbol representing wartime rape of not only Korean women and girls, but of all women and girls the world over: Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, to name but a few. The list of women suffering wartime rape is long and will continue to grow unless stories are told of women's wartime suffering.
WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM is a sweeping, page-turner of a novel with real commercial potential - perfect for reading groups. It will appeal to fans of 'Memoirs of a Geisha' and Khaled Hosseini's novels.
Mary Lynn Bracht is an American author of Korean descent who has lived in London with her family for over ten years. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck in 2015. Mary grew up in a large ex-pat community of South Korean women in a small town in Central Texas where she was hugely influenced by the hardships her mother, and the many women like her, suffered growing up in post-war South Korea. In 2002 Mary visited her mother's childhood village, and it was during this trip she first learned of the Comfort Women.
UND ueBER MIR DAS MEER
Deutsch von Elke Link
[HC Limes 09/18]
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