- Title:
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Can't I Go Instead (MP3)
- Written by:
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Lee Geum-yi
- Read by:
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Michelle H. Lee
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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11 hours 19 minutes
- MP3 size:
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490 MB
- Published:
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February 28 2024
- Available Date:
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February 28 2024
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038666109
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction; War Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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From the author of The Picture Bride, two women’s lives and identities are intertwined, revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th-century.
Can’t I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant in the early 20th-century. When the daughter’s suitor is arrested as a Korean Independence activist, and she is implicated during the investigation, she is quickly forced into marriage to one of her father’s Japanese employees and shipped off to the United States. At the same time, her maidservant is sent in her mistress’s place to be a comfort woman to the Japanese Imperial army.
Years of hardship, survival and even happiness follow. In the aftermath of WWII, the women make their way home, where they must reckon with the tangled lives they’ve led, in an attempt to reclaim their identities, and find their places in an independent Korea.
'Can't I Go Instead's complex and profoundly human characters will captivate, devastate, and move you, all at once.'
Juhea Kim, author of Beasts of a Little Land
'Compelling and inspiring, this story speaks of resilience and determination to make the best out of the situation one has been dealt.'
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