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EAN : 9782258196292
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 504
Size : 150 x 210 mm
The Red Orchids of Shanghai

Release date : 08/07/2021
From 1930 to the present day, the true story of a Korean comfort woman, one of these women forced into slavery to entertain the Japanese soldiers during their invasion of Korea. An impressive novel, with a powerful emotional force, which sheds light on a little-known page of history.
The tragic, moving and authentic story – written in the first person – of Sangmi, a fourteen-year-old Korean girl forcibly enlisted by Japanese soldiers in 1930 during the colonization of Korea. She becomes one of those comfort women trapped as sex slaves, living in the hell of military brothels. Her... The tragic, moving and authentic story – written in the first person – of Sangmi, a fourteen-year-old Korean girl forcibly enlisted by Japanese soldiers in 1930 during the colonization of Korea. She becomes one of those comfort women trapped as sex slaves, living in the hell of military brothels. Her daily life was filled with horror: dozens of sexual assaults a day, the cruelty of the men, honor swallowed up, separation from her family. But Sangmi endures outrage and humiliation because of her courage, her strength of character and the secret hope of one day finding the trail of her unknown father, a Frenchman, whom her mother disowned forever ... From Manchuria to Shanghai, via Singapore and Hiroshima, Sangmi's destiny is, despite her will, intimately linked to that of the Japanese conquest.
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EAN : 9782258196292
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 504
Size : 150 x 210 mm
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