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Title: Still Life With Rice by Helie Lee ISBN: 0-684-82711-5 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 08 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.97 (38 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Touching - Insightful - An Amazing Storytelling adventure
Comment: A friend recommended this book to me and now I recommend it to everyone. Of course you will learn a great deal about Korean culture (including some Korean-American culture), but you will also learn about people struggling against all odds, suffering, joy, the power of family and a strong and risk taking mother, as well as daughter. The power and depth of these people inspires me to live my life with greater courage and gratitude.
A must read!
I met Helie at a booksigning and she is wonderful. She is down to earth and very present and available when you speak with her. I felt as though she was interested in my story, not her story alone. Helie and her family are wonderful people and they give a glimpse of what a family who takes risks can accomplish for love.
Rating: 4
Summary: a window to a courageous korean woman's life
Comment: As a Korean-American who has little knowledge of the cultural history of Korea, I found Helie Lee's book both informative and entertaining. She did a good job protraying her grandmother as a courageous and strong woman. Her book gave me a renewed the respect for my Korean elders who are so often seen in America as helpless and weak because of their language and cultural barriers. I would recommend this book especially to those who are interested in life in Korea before the (Korean) war, but are estranged culturally, geographically, or linguistically from grandparents who would be able to account such expriences first hand. Helie Lee's book opened up a new dialog between my mother and me about her own life in Korea before immigration to the States and stories she had heard from her mother about Korea in the early 20th century.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting story; Annoying characters
Comment: This book provides an interesting glimpse into the extreme circumstances of Hongyong Baek's life. But I was annoyed from the beginning after reading the self-congratulatory preface. The actual story about her grandmother was fascinating. But the author was clearly VERY proud of her grandmother, which seemed to make the character arrogant and hypocritical. And when she writes about herself but in her grandmother's voice, it's just a shameful, distracting mess. The events though were interesting enough for me to grudgingly finish the book.
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Title: In the Absence of Sun : A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of HerFamily by HELIE LEE ISBN: 0609609343 Publisher: Harmony Pub. Date: 23 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: House of the Winds (Penguin Readers Guide Inside) by Mia Yun ISBN: 0140291946 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots by Katy Robinson ISBN: 042518496X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: To Swim Across the World : A Novel by Ginger Park, Frances Park ISBN: 0786886315 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 28 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: One Thousand Chestnut Trees: A Novel of Korea by Mira Stout ISBN: 1573220736 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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