The Hundred Choices Department Store
Book description
It’s 1944. The Pangs own The Hundred Choices Department Store, a thriving business in northern Korea that caters to wealthy Japanese. Thirteen-year-old Miyook Pang has spent two years serving in the war effort on behalf of Japan during the Japanese Occupation of her country. Miyook endures exhaustion and illness, but…
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1 author picked The Hundred Choices Department Store as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book provides readers with an authentic window through which they can peer into the life experienced during WWII-ravaged Korea, as seen through Miyooki.
In Miyooki, Park creates a narrator who explodes off the page as a rebellious thirteen-year-old witness and survivor of the traumas of war. Miyooki's unique perspective highlights the full range of her experience in three distinct stages, life before wartime; life under the Japanese occupation of her homeland; and life as the war ends and the Russian military moves in to collect the spoils.
The novel's concise length is another key feature that makes it extremely…
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