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A review by eeshadixit
Daughters of the Dragon by William Andrews
4.0
This book sends chills down the spine.
The details, the gory details, the ruthlessness, the misery, the desperation, the sheer grit - it is raw and as real as fiction can get.
The protagonist, Jae-hee is nothing but a force of nature. She is the woman who is born in the year of the dragon and holds the comb with the two-faced dragon with 5 toes passed down to her from her mother. But she is nothing less than a dragon herself. Fierce, determined and courageous - that is Jae-hee.
The book depicts how Korean women and Korea as a nation got affected by the second world war by the Japanese, the Russians and the Americans.
It takes a lot of mental effort to get through the part where the author has described the comfort station and the "duty" of the comfort women without getting affected by it...
This book is an eye opener, to say the least.
The details, the gory details, the ruthlessness, the misery, the desperation, the sheer grit - it is raw and as real as fiction can get.
The protagonist, Jae-hee is nothing but a force of nature. She is the woman who is born in the year of the dragon and holds the comb with the two-faced dragon with 5 toes passed down to her from her mother. But she is nothing less than a dragon herself. Fierce, determined and courageous - that is Jae-hee.
The book depicts how Korean women and Korea as a nation got affected by the second world war by the Japanese, the Russians and the Americans.
It takes a lot of mental effort to get through the part where the author has described the comfort station and the "duty" of the comfort women without getting affected by it...
This book is an eye opener, to say the least.