Ten Thousand Sorrows

ISBN-13: 9780553812640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str.

Elizabeth Kim

Opis

I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today. So opens this memoir. The illegitimate daughter of a Korean peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth spent her early years as a social outcast, because of the Korean taboo against the mixing of races. Ostracized by her mother's family and village, she and her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the rice fields. Yet because of her mother's love and calm acceptance of fate, inspired by her deep Buddhist faith, there was a tranquil happiness in the intense and close bond between mother and daughter: untill the day Elizabeth's grandfather and uncle came to punish her mother for the dishonour she had brought the family, and hanged her in front of her daughter's eyes.

Recenzje

It is astonishing that Kim has survived...All one wants for this exceptional woman is that she be granted ten thousand joys to expunge all the sorrows that have been her life's companion. THE TIMES

O autorze

Kim, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Kim works on a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper. Ten Thousand Sorrows is her first book.