William Andrews (1)
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- Verk
- 5
- Medlemmar
- 199
- Popularitet
- #110,457
- Betyg
- 4.2
- Recensioner
- 14
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- 61
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Where I'm not so keen on the book is the emphasis on grisly descriptions of violence against women rather than on the characters of the women and how they survive and, in some cases, support each other. The attitudes of the Geishas is also left unexplored; they seem callous towards the slaves because they are not Japanese. It isn't clear exactly what role they performed given that most of the 'servicing' was done by the prisoners: mainly, they just seem to sit around watching. It also didn't quite gell that this is written by a man from the West whose only connection to Korea is that he adopted a child from the country.
The emphasis on the comb and its meaning is also rather odd, serving to make the main character artificially special rather than representative of the women who suffered. The present day framing only serves to make it less credible that the character can recall sixty year old events in such minute detail, and I found those present day parts to be much weaker. Her granddaughter isn't really developed as a character and it isn't convincing that her adoptive father would let her go off alone in a foreign country to meet a woman who claimed to be her grandmother given the real life instances of abduction and trafficking. Due to these considerations, I can only rate this as a 3 star read and hope that a book on the subject will be written one day by someone with a Korean ethnic and cultural background.… (mer)