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A Gift of the Emperor, EPUB eBook

A Gift of the Emperor EPUB

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A Gift of the Emperor is the poignant fictional account of real-life atrocities inflicted upon more than 200,000 Asian women by the Japanese military during World War II. This haunting story is narrated by Soon-ah, a Korean schoolgirl whose life is shattered when Emperor Hirohito's soldiers abduct her from her village and ship her and her schoolmates to a ';house of relaxation' in the South Pacific. Here, on an island with surreal beauty, Soon-ah is forced into prostitution as a ';comfort woman' to the Japanese military. This scorching account of one woman's endurance of sexual degradation and the unspeakable horror of war provides compelling testimony to the strength of the human spirit, the power of love over hate, and the ultimate triumph of hope over despair.

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