That scrap of paper leads Anna to the Seoul apartment of the poor yet elegant Hong Jae-hee. But just when it seems her search is over, a stranger hands her a parcel containing an antique comb-and an address. And in the end, you’ll have a better understanding of the Land of the Morning Calm.ĭaughters of the Dragon is inspired by The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, Memiors of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, the books of Amy Tan and Lisa See.( From the publisher.When twenty-year-old Anna Carlson travels from America to a Korean orphanage to locate her birth mother, she’s devastated to learn the woman is already dead. Set within the tumultuous backdrop of 20th century Korea, Daughters of the Dragon by award-winning author William Andrews will make you cry and cheer for Ja-hee. And now she must find the only person who can carry on the legacy of the two-headed dragon… someone she abandoned years ago. Then one day she discovers its true meaning and her surprising heredity. In the depths of despair, she’s tempted to sell the comb with the two-headed dragon that she believes has no magic for her. However when her terrible secret is revealed, she’s thrown into poverty. There, she finally finds success as the country rebuilds after the Korean War. But the communists take him away in the middle of the night, and she escapes to the South. She meets a man in North Korea who shows her what true love is. Ja-hee keeps her time as a comfort woman a secret while she struggles to rebuild her life. The sisters suffer terribly at the hands of the Japanese, and by the end of the war, Ja-hee must flee while her sister lies dying. Before they leave home, their mother gives them a magnificent antique comb with an ivory inlay of a two-headed dragon, saying it will protect them.
In 1943, the Japanese tear young Ja-hee and her sister from their peaceful family farm to be comfort women for the Imperial Army. This is one woman’s riveting story of strength, courage and promises kept. Winner, 2014 Ippy Award for Historical Fictionĭuring World War II, the Japanese forced as many as 200,000 young Korean women to be sex slaves or “comfort women” for their soldiers. Daughters of the Dragon: A Comfort Woman's Story
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