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Summary:During World War II, the Japanese forced 200,000 young Korean women to be sex slaves or “comfort women” for their soldiers. This is one woman’s riveting story of strength, courage and promises kept.
In 1943, the Japanese tear young Jae-hee and her sister from their peaceful family farm to be comfort women for the Imperial Army. Before they leave home, their mother gives them a magnificent antique comb with an ivory inlay of a two-headed dragon, saying it will protect them. The sisters suffer terribly at the hands of the Japanese, and by the end of the war, Jae-hee must flee while her sister lies dying. Jae-hee keeps her time as a comfort woman a secret while she struggles to rebuild her life. She meets a man in North Korea who shows her what true love is. But the communists take him away in the middle of the night, and she escapes to the South. There, she finally finds success as the country rebuilds after the Korean War. However when her terrible secret is revealed, she’s thrown into poverty. In the depths of despair, she’s tempted to sell the comb with the two-headed dragon that she believes has no magic for her. Then one day she discovers its true meaning and her surprising heredity. And now she must find the only person who can carry on the legacy of the two-headed dragon… someone she abandoned years ago.
Rating: 3.5 stars
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Review: This novel is told from both Anna and Jae-hee point of view. Anna's isn't developed that well but this story isn't about Anna but Jae-hee and her story. I found one issue with this whole book and that is emotion. This novel depends very much on characters not action. There were points during the novel shocking and emotional scenes would happen but then there was times I felt the story became to be boring. Seeing as this story is about comfort women and the torture they went though I don't like to say it was boring in some parts. With novel like this the author has to hope the reader is emotionally invested in their characters to continue. I often have a hard time connecting with characters . It seemed with Jae-hee I only cared when she was in a horrible situation.This is often a problem I run into as a reader. This is not in anyway a authors fault but just wanted to put this for readers like me. While this con may seems as a major downside this story needs to be read. Before I read this book the words comfort women didn't have any meaning. As the novel slowly told Jae-hee story like many others l learned the brutality of the Japanese during Word War 2. While the story felt boring at times that never over powers the intensity of what happened to those women. Also Korean culture was added into this story which I feel made the story even more real and heartbreaking. I recommend everyone to read this book and learned about what happened to these women.
