{"title":"Books by Kim Soom","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780295747668","title":"One Left","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful tale of trauma and endurance that transformed a nation’s understanding of Korean comfort women\u003c\/b\u003eDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women have come forward only to have their testimonies and calls for compensation largely denied by the Japanese government. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen while gathering snails for her starving family. The horrors of her life as a sex slave follow her back to Korea, where she lives in isolation gripped by the fear that her past will be discovered. Yet, when she learns that the last known comfort woman is dying, she decides to tell her there will still be “one left” after her passing, and embarks on a painful journey. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Left\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative, extensively researched novel constructed from the testimonies of dozens of comfort women. The first Korean novel devoted to this subject, it rekindled conversations about comfort women as well as the violent legacies of Japanese colonialism. This first-ever English translation recovers the overlooked and disavowed stories of Korea’s most marginalized women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56232044659061,"sku":"9780295747668","price":22.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780295747668_3a628a08-fe6c-4cfd-b2b6-563237ef8e51.jpg?v=1786012413"},{"product_id":"9781978842809","title":"No Hand Held Mine","description":"An elderly Korean woman talking about being forced into sexual slavery during World War II. A modern Korean woman extricating herself from a failing relationship with an artist. Award-winning South Korean writer Kim Soom presents us with portraits of two women who couldn’t be more different but who both show resilience and compassion. \u003ci\u003eNo Hand Held Mine: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, containing one non-fiction piece and one short story, demonstrates the power and breadth of Kim’s writing. “Granny Wild Goose” uses former Comfort Woman Gil Won-Ok’s own words, recorded during conversations with Kim, to tell her life story of brutality, betrayal, and survival. In “The Root’s Tale,” the female protagonist comes to understand the strength of solitary women. Both devastating and reaffirming, \u003ci\u003eNo Hand Held Mine\u003c\/i\u003e shows why Kim Soom has received every major literary award in Korea. Joon-Li Kim and Doo-Sun Ryu’s sensitive translation maintains Kim’s lyricism and exquisite imagery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book is published with the support of The Daesan Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309949497717,"sku":"9781978842809","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781978842809_af84ddd0-678f-4467-bdcf-af9cb4a424be.jpg?v=1786031392"},{"product_id":"divorce","title":"Divorce","description":"\u003cp\u003eA poet reflects on the lives of the different generations of women around her as she contemplates her own divorce from a socially-engaged photographer; her feelings are complicated by the ethics of public\/private, art\/life divisions, as well as the country’s contemporary history. The story reveals the raw complexity of gender dynamics in a society still hobbled by the demands forced on its people through war and ideology and rapid modernization; it is a good reminder of the different feminisms that do and must exist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490337595765,"sku":"9781911343615","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911343615.jpg?v=1786442225"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-kim-soom.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}