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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Lucky Gourd Shop (2000)di Joanna Catherine Scott
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An imagined tale of a mother of three girls the author adopted. Fictionalized story of the mother of three korean adoptee girls. A simple orphan girl, in postwar Korea (mid-late 1950s) works in a gourd shop. Has an abusive boyfriend who also beats his wife, and eventually marries him, since she is downtrodden, simple and without other options. Grandmother is the strongest influence but is old and ill, and gives up kids at the end. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
When an American mother's three adopted children reach their teens, they grow curious about their Korean heritage. A much-anticipated letter from Korea fails to satisfy them but sparks memories in the eldest. So begins the heartbreaking and inspiring tale of their birth mother's life as their adoptive mother imagines it. Abandoned as a baby and then again and again, Mi Sook is raised in a Korean coffee shop by its string of owner-mothers. She grows to adulthood fiercely independent and eventually comes to manage the shop. But her marriage to Kun Soo, with whom she has three children, begins a series of events that ultimately wrench her babies from her arms. Deceived by Kun Soo and his well-intentioned mother, and unsupported by a rigidly Confucian culture, Mi Sook emerges as a tragic and heroic figure who embodies the rich complexities of a nation -- and of the heart. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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