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Ten thousand sorrows

the extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan

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An edition of Ten thousand sorrows (2000)

Ten thousand sorrows

the extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan

1st ed.
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"They called it an "honor killing," but to Elizabeth Kim, the night she watched her grandfather and uncle hang her mother from the wooden rafter in the corner of their small Korean hut, it was cold-blooded murder. Her Omma had committed the sin of lying with an American soldier, and producing not just a bastard but a honhyol - a mixed-race child, considered worth less than nothing.".

"Left at a Christian orphanage in postwar Seoul like garbage, bleeding and terrified, Kim unwittingly embarked on the next phase of her life when she was adopted by a childless Fundamentalist pastor and his wife in the United States. Unfamiliar with Western customs and language, but terrified that she would be sent back to the orphanage, or even killed, Kim trained herself to be the perfect child.

But just as her Western features doomed her in Korea, so her Asian features served as a constant reminder that she wasn't good enough for her new, all-white environment." "After escaping her adoptive parents' home, only to find herself in an abusive and controlling marriage, Kim finally made a break for herself by having a daughter and running away with her to a safer haven - something Omma could not do for her."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
228

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Cover of: Ichiman no kanashimi =
Ichiman no kanashimi =: Ten thousand sorrows
2002, HC
in Korean
Cover of: Ten Thousand Sorrows
Ten Thousand Sorrows
July 1, 2002, Bantam Books Ltd
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Zuo ri bu ke liu
Zuo ri bu ke liu: Ten thousand sorrows
2000, Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
in Chinese - Chu ban
Cover of: Ten thousand sorrows
Ten thousand sorrows: the extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan
2000, Doubleday
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Ten thousand sorrows
Ten thousand sorrows: the extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan
2000, Ted Smart
in English
Cover of: Ten thousand sorrows
Ten thousand sorrows: the extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan
2000, Doubleday
in English
Cover of: Ten thousand sorrows
Ten thousand sorrows: the extraordinary journey of a Korean War orphan
2000, Doubleday
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973/.04957/0092, B
Library of Congress
E184.K6 K44 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
228 p. ;
Number of pages
228

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL49594M
Internet Archive
tenthousandsorro0000kime_l8e7
ISBN 10
0385496338
LCCN
99052870
OCLC/WorldCat
226088202
Library Thing
342352
Goodreads
1039455

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