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Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extradordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan
by [KIM, ELIZABETH ] Kim, Elizabeth
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385496338
- ISBN 13
- 9780385496339
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with cream boards, brown spine cloth and gold gilt spine lettering. Pale brown end papers. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From a review on the back jacket by Sapphire, '. . . one of the most harrowing stories I have ever encountered in print; it is a book that must be read by anyone serious about memoirs, the Asian-American experience, or what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century. Kim has written a poignant and masterful memoir destined to find a permanent place in American literature.'
Synopsis
Elizabeth Kim is the city desk editor for the Marin Independent Journal . She lives in San Rafael, California.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001030
- Title
- Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extradordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan
- Author
- [KIM, ELIZABETH ] Kim, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385496338
- ISBN 13
- 9780385496339
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Biography, Elizabeth Kim, Korean American women - Biography, Korean Americans - Biography, Racially mixed people - United States - Biography, Orphans - Korea - Biography, Women - Abuse of - Korea, Seoul Korea - Biography, Fundamentalism - Biography
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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