Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan
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adoption,biographies,discrimination and racism,parenting and relationships,politics and social sciences,race relations,sociology,specific groups,women, Ten Thousand Sorrows, Ten Thousand Sorrows starts with its young narrator watching her mother's murder; improbably, things go downhill from there. "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," Frank McCourt famously wrote in Angela's Ashes. But McCourt's hardscrabble youth looks like a walk in the park compared to the experiences of Elizabeth Kim. The child of an illicit union between a Korean mother and an American father, Kim grows up the object of disgust and contempt in rural Korea. As a honhyol, or mixed-race child, she isn't considered a person at all. Yet her mother refuses to sell her into servitude, and for that show of compassion she pays with her life. In the harrowing scene that opens the book, Kim watches from a hiding place as her mother--the victim of a so-called honor killing--is hanged from a rafter: "All I could see through the bamboo slats were her bare feet, dangling in midair. I watched those milk-white feet twitch, almost with the rhythm of the Hwagwan-mu dance, and then grow still." Left alone in the world, without so much as a name or date of birth, Kim ends up in an orphanage where she spends hours on end locked in a crib that resembles a cage. Things ought to look up when an American couple adopts her. Instead, one form of abuse merely replaces another, as the pastor and his wife tell Kim that her mother "left her to die in a rice paddy" and immediately take away any toy or pet to which she develops an att.

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They called it an "honor killing," but to Elizabeth Kim, the night she watched her grandfather and uncle hang her mother from the wooden rafter in the corner of their small Korean hut, it was cold-blooded murder. Her Omma had committed the sin of lying with an American soldier, and producing not just a bastard but a honhyol--a mixed-race child, considered worth less than nothing. Left at a Christian orphanage in postwar Seoul like garbage, bleeding and terrified, Kim unwittingly embarked on the next phase of her extraordinary life when she was adopted by a childless Fundamentalist pastor and his wife in the United States. Unfamiliar with Western customs and language, but terrified that she would be sent back to the orphanage, or even killed, Kim trained herself to be the perfect child. But just as her Western features doomed her in Korea, so her Asian features served as a constant reminder that she wasn't good enough for her new, all-white environment. After escaping her adoptive parents' home, only to find herself in an abusive and controlling marriage, Kim finally made a break for herself by having a daughter and running away with her to a safer haven--something Omma could not do for her. Unflinching in her narration, Kim tells of her sorrows with a steady and riveting voice, and ultimately transcends them by laying claim to all the joys to which she is entitled. Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1st, Label: Doubleday, Doubleday, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2000-05-02, Freigegeben: 2000-05-02, Studio: Doubleday, Verkaufsrang: 1193397.

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A Korean War orphan shares her story of triumph over tragedy, retracing her steps from the Korean countryside, where her mother was murdered for sleeping with an American GI, to America, where she found both hardship and salvation. 60,000 first printing.Taal: Engels;Verschijningsdatum: juni 2000;ISBN10: 0385496338;ISBN13: 9780385496339; Engelstalig | Hardcover | 2000.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books UK, FIFE, Dunfermline, [RE:4].
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Free State Books, MD, Halethorpe, [RE:5].
Hardcover.