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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Children's Books
ISBN-100440407591
ISBN-139780440407591
eBay Product ID (ePID)137901
Product Key Features
Book TitleYear of Impossible Goodbyes
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TopicLove & Romance, People & Places / Asia, General, Social Themes / Violence, Historical / Military & Wars
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorSook Nyul Choi
FormatDigest Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.3 Oz
Item Length7.6 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
Dewey Edition20
Grade FromThird Grade
Grade ToSeventh Grade
Dewey DecimalFIC
SynopsisIt is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to the family, but he cannot break their spirit. Sookan's father is with the resistance movement in Manchuria and her older brothers have been sent away to labor camps. Her mother is forced to supervise a sock factory and Sookan herself must wear a uniform and attend a Japanese school. Then the war ends. Out come the colorful Korean silks and bags of white rice. But Communist Russian troops have taken control of North Korea and once again the family is suppressed. Sookan and her family know their only hope for freedom lies in a dangerous escape to Americancontrolled South Korea. Here is the incredible story of one family's love for each other and their determination to risk everything to find freedom.