A novel inspired by Little Women, set around MANCHESTER
Ten Thousand Sorrows
Location(s): South Korea
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): Mid 20th Century
The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside. Ostracized by their family and neighbours, she and her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the rice fields. Yet there was a tranquil happiness in the intense bond between mother and daughter. Until the day that Elizabeth’s grandfather and uncle came to punish her mother from the dishonour she had brought on the family, and executed her in front of her daughter.
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