So Far From The Bamboo Grove

Author(s): Yoko Kawashima Watkins

Location(s): South Korea

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction

Era(s): WW2

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A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.

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