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CONDITION: GOOD BUT SOME YELLOWING TO OUTSIDE OF PAGES AND SOME MARKS ON BOTTOM FRONT COVER
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee This book is a haunting, compelling exploration of the Japanese experience of the Second World War, and the fate of their 'comfort women'. "You make a whole life out of gestures and politeness," Sunny tells her adoptive father, Franklin Hata. Franklin deflects everyone with courtesy and impenetrable decorum, becoming a respected elder of his small prosperous American town. As Sunny tries to unpick her father's scrupulous self-control, the story he has repressed emerges: his life as a medic in the Japanese army and his love for a Korean woman forced into sexual service for the troops... |
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