The picture bride
Geum-yi, Lee2022
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Could you marry a man you've never met? Three Korean women in 1918 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii, where they will marry, having seen only photographs of their intended husbands. Different fates await each of these women. Hong-ju, who dreams of a marriage of 'natural love', meets a man who looks twenty years older than his photograph; Song-hwa, who wants to escape from her life of ridicule as the granddaughter of a shaman, meets a lazy drunkard. And then there's Willow, whose 26-year-old groom, Taewan, looks just like his image . Real life doesn't always resemble a picture, but there's no going back. And while things don't turn out quite as they'd hoped, even for Willow, they do find something that makes their journey worthwhile - each other.
Main title:
The picture bride / Lee Geum-yi ; translated by An Seon Jae.
Author:
Geum-yi, Lee, authorJae, An Seon, translator
Imprint:
London : Scribe UK, 2022.
Collation:
320 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Korean.
ISBN:
9781913348861 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.735
Language:
EnglishKorean
BRN:
3359794
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