Revised edition: This edition of Daughters of the Dragon includes editorial revisions. Set within the tumultuous backdrop of 20th century Korea, Daughters of the Dragon by award-winning author William Andrews will make you cry and cheer for Ja-hee. And as its origins become clearer, Anna realizes that along with the comb, she inherits a legacy-of resilience and courage, love and redemption-beyond her wildest imagination. And now she must find the only person who can carry on the legacy of the two-headed dragon someone she abandoned years ago. As Jae-hee’s narrative unfolds, Anna discovers that the precious tortoiseshell comb, with its two-headed ivory dragon, has survived against all odds through generations of her family’s women. During World War II, the Japanese forced 200,000 young Korean women to be sex slaves or comfort women for their soldiers. Jae-hee recounts an epic tale that begins with the Japanese occupation of Korea and China during World War II, when more than two hundred thousand Korean women were forced to serve the soldiers as “comfort women.” Jae-hee knows the story well-she was one of them. That scrap of paper leads Anna to the Seoul apartment of the poor yet elegant Hong Jae-hee. But just when it seems her search is over, a stranger hands her a parcel containing an antique comb-and an address. When twenty-year-old Anna Carlson travels from America to a Korean orphanage to locate her birth mother, she’s devastated to learn the woman is already dead.
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