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The Calligrapher's Daughter: A Novel
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Kim, Eugenia
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Raver, Lorna
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Tantor Media 2009
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A sweeping debut novel, inspired by the life of the author's mother, about a young woman who dares to fight for a brighter future in occupied Korea.

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Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
9/1/2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781400193547
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Eugenia Kim. (2009). The Calligrapher's Daughter: A Novel. Unabridged Tantor Media.

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Eugenia Kim. 2009. The Calligrapher's Daughter: A Novel. Tantor Media.

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Eugenia Kim, The Calligrapher's Daughter: A Novel. Tantor Media, 2009.

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Eugenia Kim. The Calligrapher's Daughter: A Novel. Unabridged Tantor Media, 2009.

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        This debut novel, inspired by the life of the author’s Korean mother, is a beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning 30 years of Korean history. The tradition-bound aristocratic calligrapher Han refuses to name his daughter because she is born just as the Japanese occupy Korea early in the 20th century. When Han finds a husband for Najin (nicknamed after her mother’s birthplace) at 14, her mother objects and instead sends her to the court of the doomed royal Yi family to learn refinement. Najin goes to college and becomes a teacher, proving herself not only as a scholar but as a patriot and humanitarian. She returns home to marry, but her new husband goes without her to study in America when she is denied a visa. As the Japanese systematically obliterate ancient Korean culture and the political climate worsens, so do Najin’s fortunes. Her family is reduced to poverty, their home is seized and Najin is imprisoned as a spy while WWII escalates. The author writes at a languorous pace, choosing not to sully her elegant pages with raw brutality, but the key to the story is Korea’s monumental suffering at the hands of the Japanese.

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