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…
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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…
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