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The island of sea women : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION SEE (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019.
Physical Description
v, 374 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
Best friends Mi-ja and Young-sook are old enough to begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook's differences are impossible to ignore. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother's position leading the divers in their village. Beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, through the Korean War and its aftermath, up to the present, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires.