A young girl's horrifying past that haunts her memory....

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	• So Far from the Bamboo Grove Yoko Kawashima Watkins HarperTrophy, 1994 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 82 reviews view larger image
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Deeply moving . . . I Loved It!

Like many others, I read this book for school last year, and I found it wonderful. I also got to meet the author, Yoko Kawashima Watkins, who was an incredibly kind and sweet woman. Some people say that it is biased, but she's just telling it from her own perspective. If you want another perspective, to see the other side of the story, read The Year of Impossible Goodbyes. When you are done with Bamboo Grove, I highly suggest reading My Brother, My Sister and I, the sequel, which is connected, but isn't that much about war, and is even better that this one.

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A young girl's horrifying past that haunts her memory....

well, its not that horrifying...i think she wrote this book just to get everything out of her. she probably wants to let it out (like writing in a diary about your day) and also just tell others of her life. to tell others that life can be better than digging in garbage cans, watching your mother die, suffering, getting injured, being seperated with your family members, etc. to tell us that we should be glad with the lives we have now and we must love and care while we can, while we live. her book is a lesson to all of us out here. we should appreciate our lives and what we have! I'll stop now. i sound like a preacher.

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What?

I thought that this was a good book. However,the ending left me hanging in the breeze. The begining and middle, were great, but the ending stopped just suddenly, with no follow up. I would have included what happend to her father. All in all, good book, bad ending.

One of the best books I have ever read

For those of you who say this book is boring or that Yoko is saying Koreans are all bad and all Japanese are innocent--I must disagree. (OBVIOUSLY there are some good Koreans like the Kim family and some bad Japanese like the guys who drag women to the thicket and rape them, but THIS BOOK is from the perspective of a GOOD Japanese family!) Anyway, this is what I have to say:

I was assigned this book by my English teacher. At first I thought "AUGHHH, another book to read" but as soon as I finished the first few pages I couldn't put it down. I was only to read the first 10 pages the 1st night, but I read the whole thing. Believe me, I am not just absentmindedly saying "oh it's a great book" so I won't insult other reviewers...it really is a GREAT memoir of a Japanese family fleeing Korea in the midst of World War II. It also helps put things in perspective--after you have read this, if you have a bad hair day or something, instead of going "WAAAAHH" maybe you'll remember this book and how long it took them just to find a meal and what they went through. If I could, I would give this book ten stars. **********

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One of my favorite books

A few days ago at school, we were told we would be reading this book. We are reading this book because we are actually going to meet the author. She will come to our school and we will get to ask her questions about the book. I thought I would hate this book, but boy was I wrong. I love this book and if you are trying to find a good book with lots of details I would definitely recomend it. This is a memmoir of Yoko's live during World War 2. It about how her mother, her sister, and her travel from their home in Nanam, North Korea to Seoul, South Korea. They are forced to go to Seoul because the Russians want to kill her and her family for her father's work for the goverment in Manchiria, China. To find out more about this book you have to read the book. I am sure you will love the book just as much as I did.

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