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White Chrysanthemum

White Chrysanthemum
  • Author(s): Mary Lynn Bracht
  • Location(s): Northeast (Manchuria), North Korea, South Korea
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 2011

Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana saves her younger sister...

The Fox Wife

The Fox Wife
  • Author(s): Yangsze Choo
  • Location(s): China, Japan, Northeast (Manchuria)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for...

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