Book description
It’s 1944. The Pangs own The Hundred Choices Department Store, a thriving business in northern Korea that caters to wealthy Japanese. Thirteen-year-old Miyook Pang has spent two years serving in the war effort on behalf of Japan during the Japanese Occupation of her country. Miyook endures exhaustion and illness, but…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Hundred Choices Department Store as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book provides readers with an authentic window through which they can peer into the life experienced during WWII-ravaged Korea, as seen through Miyooki.
In Miyooki, Park creates a narrator who explodes off the page as a rebellious thirteen-year-old witness and survivor of the traumas of war. Miyooki's unique perspective highlights the full range of her experience in three distinct stages, life before wartime; life under the Japanese occupation of her homeland; and life as the war ends and the Russian military moves in to collect the spoils.
The novel's concise length is another key feature that makes it extremely…
If you love The Hundred Choices Department Store...
These Blue Mountains
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Want books like The Hundred Choices Department Store?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Hundred Choices Department Store.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,366
readers submitted
so far, will you?
📚 If you like The Hundred Choices Department Store, you might also like...
Deadly Revenge
Deputy Jenna Hart has only been working in her sleepy hometown of Pearl Springs for seven months when city officials begin to be targeted by a killer. Twenty years ago, the construction of a dam caused people to lose their land to eminent domain. That wound has not healed with…
The Duty of Memory
Separating the true stories from the myths, The Duty of Memory provides a deeper understanding of the diverse motivations that drove ordinary people to join an underground network of French Resistants despite terrible odds and horrifying consequences.
This book takes the reader inside the true story of men and women…
