Description

* Wonderfully telling scenes evoke the time, the place, andmore subtlythe deep-running emotions that these people, bound by customs and besieged by troubles, were so rarely free to Reviews, pointer review Ms. Choi writes of social, political and personal hurts in a context few young Americans today have experienced. Yet she tells of more than dislocation: she tells of Sookans personal growth, indeed her York Times

Sookan, the unforgettable heroine of Year of Impossible Goodbyes, is now fifteen years old and a refugee in Pusan, a city in a southern province of Korea. The Korean War is raging, and she once again has been separated from her father and brothers. Anxiously awaiting any news of them, Sookan imagines a time when she can return to a normal life in Seoul. In the meantime, though she often feels sad, alone, and scared, she finds solace in a forbidden friendship and from the mysterious shouting poet who offers her and her fellow refugees inspiration each morning.

Author: Sook Nyul Choi
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780618809172
Language: English