White Chrysanthemum - Mary Lynn Bracht

Written by Mary Lynn Bracht
Read by Greta Jung
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: January 30, 2018
Duration: 10:44:07

Korea, 1943.
Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana saves her younger sister, Emi, from a Japanese soldier and is then captured and transported to Manchuria. There she is forced to become a “comfort woman” in a Japanese military brothel. But HAENYEO are women of power and strength. She will find her way home.

South Korea, 2011.
Emi has spent more than sixty years trying to forget the sacrifice her sister made, but she must confront the past to discover peace. Seeing the healing of her children and her country, can Emi move beyond the legacy of war to find forgiveness?

Suspenseful, hopeful, and ultimately redemptive, White Chrysanthemum tells a story of two sisters whose love for each other is strong enough to triumph over the grim evils of war.

“Narrator Greta Jung tells the heartbreaking story of two sisters who were parted by history and their intervening years of pain in Japanese-occupied Korea… As the two sisters are separated by conflict, oppression, and time, Jung’s soft voice brings across the grief of irredeemable tragedy. … The chapters journey forward and backward in time, taking listeners from the harsh realities of Korea in the mid 1940s to Emi’s guilt as an old woman who is searching for her older sister. Jung captures the love and loss in her lyrical delivery.”—AudioFile