The picture bride / Lee Geum-yi ; translated by An Seon Jae.
Publication details: Carlton North, VIC : Scribe Publications, 2022.Description: 309 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922310859
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | YI | Available | 071254 |
Could you marry a man you've never met? Three Korean women in 1918 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii, where they will marry, having seen only photographs of their intended husbands. Different fates await each of these women. Hongju, who dreams of a marriage of 'natural love', meets a man who looks twenty years older than his photography; Songhwa, who wants to escape from her life of ridicule as the granddaughter of a shaman, meets a lazy drunkard. And then there's Willow, whose 26-year-old groom, Taewan, looks just like his image... Real life doesn't always resemble a picture, but there's not going back. And while things don't turn out quite as they'd hoped, even for Willow, they do find something that makes their journey worthwhile - each other.
Translated from the Korean.