Ten Thousand Sorrows

Elizabeth Kim

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Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
15 July 2011

Autobiography: general

Shocking, moving and beautifully written Korean woman's memoir, from abused and ostracized childhood to cathartic return to Korea as an adult.

I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today.'

The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside.

Ostracized by their family and neighbours, she and her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the rice fields.

Yet there was a tranquil happiness in the intense bond between mother and daughter.

Until the day that Elizabeth's grandfather and uncle came to punish her mother from the dishonour she had brought on the family, and executed her in front of her daughter.

Elizabeth was dumped in an orphanage in Seoul.

After some time, she was lucky enough to be adopted by an American couple.

But when she arrived in America she found herself once again surrounded by fanaticism and prejudice.

Elizabeth's mother had always told her that life was made up of ten thousand joys as well as ten thousand sorrows, and, supported by her loving daughter, and by a return to her Buddhist faith, she finally found a way to savour those joys, as well as the courage to exorcise the demons of her past.

By: Elizabeth Kim
Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 162g
ISBN: 9780553812640
ISBN 10: 0553812645
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 July 2011
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Kim works on a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper. Ten Thousand Sorrows is her first book.

Reviews for Ten Thousand Sorrows

A magnificent tribute to the power of forgiveness. -- DAVE PELZAR, author A Child Called 'It' Elizabeth Kim's remarkable life is tragic...More harrowing than any novel. -- ARTHUR GOLDEN, author of Memoirs of a Geisha It is astonishing that Kim has survived...All one wants for this exceptional woman is that she be granted ten thousand joys to expunge all the sorrows that have been her life's companion. -- THE TIMES

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