TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hooton,Matthew
TI  - Typhoon kingdom
SN  - 9781760800307
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Crawley, Western Australia
PB  - UWA Publishing
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Allegiance
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Shipwreck victims
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Novel
KW  - English
KW  - Australia
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Texts
KW  - thema
KW  - Comfort women
KW  - Korea
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Korean War, 1950-1953
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Shipwrecks
KW  - Seoul (Korea)
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History
KW  - Japanese occupation, 1910-1945
KW  - 1637-1864
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
N2  - Based on the seventeenth-century journal of a shipwrecked Dutch sailor, and testimonies of surviving Korean 'Comfort Women,' Typhoon kingdom is a story of war, romance, and survival that brings to life the devastating history of Korea at crucial moments in its struggle for independence. In 1653, the Dutch East India Company's Sparrowhawk is wrecked on a Korean island, and Hae-jo, a local fisherman, guides the ship's bookkeeper to Seoul in search of his surviving shipmates. The two men, one who has never ventured to the mainland, and the other unable to speak the language, are soon forced to choose between loyalty to each other, and a King determined to maintain his country's isolation. Three-hundred years later, in the midst of the Japanese occupation, Yoo-jin is taken from her family and forced into prostitution, and a young soldier must navigate the Japanese surrender and ensuing chaos of the Korean War to find her
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