September Monkey Hardcover – August 26, 2011
by Induk Pahk (Author)
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284 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Literary Licensing, LLC
Publication date
August 26, 2011
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5.98 x 0.75 x 9.02 inches
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Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC (August 26, 2011)
Language : English
Hardcover : 284 pages
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4.0 out of 5 stars Heartwarming, insightful autobiography of a Korean woman
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2004
This autobiography takes us from the birth of the author in the early 1900s through her tumultuous life as mirrored in the upheaval that her native country experienced - including two world wars, Japanese occupation, and artificial separation by the USA and USSR with a subsequent peninsular war. Along the way she gives us insight to the cultural aspects of Korea, including food, clothing, marriage, and the like. Much of her discourse has to do with Protestant Christianity, into which she was baptized at an early age. Interesting also is how she spends much of her life traveling, mostly in the United States, as a sort of self-appointed ambassador of her people to the world. For a Korean woman in the early half of the 1900s to do this is something of a wonder.
While the tone comes across as innocent or naive, one wonders if she is simply not viewing her experiences through the lens of hope rather than despair. After all, this is a woman who survived solitary confinement in a Japanese prison, poverty, hunger, cold, divorce, a daughter's death from tuberculosis, and long separation from her family. Her sometimes glib admiration of America and Americans might draw scoffs from the multicultural cynics of our day, yet it does shed some light on the way America was viewed in those times. One ends up wondering, however, why it is she spent seemingly the majority of her life in America, when she had extensive family in Korea.
In summary, an enjoyable, easy read, with intelligent and cheerful reflections on human nature.
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