The Hundred Choices Department Store (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781646032129)

It's 1944. The Pangs own The Hundred Choices Department Store, a thriving business in northern Korea that caters to wealthy Japanese. Thirteen-year-old Miyook Pang has spent two years serving in the war effort on behalf of Japan during the Japanese Occupation of her country. Miyook endures exhaustion and illness, but only when she is sent to work in the dreaded dye factory - a place deemed Hell's Chamber by her older brother, Hoon - does she experience spiritual death. It is here where she meets Song-ho, an orphaned boy, and unbeknownst to her, the brief encounter will prove fateful. When Japan loses the war, Russian soldiers capture her beloved hometown and The Hundred Choices Department Store, leaving the city in ruin. With the Korean War looming, Miyook must take a dangerous flight south, across the 38th parallel now guarded by the newly formed North Korean Army. Here, once again, she encounters Song-ho, an event that will change the course of her life.

Author: Ginger Park
ISBN-10: 1646032128
ISBN-13: 9781646032129
Publisher: Fitzroy Books
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2022
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.58w x 0.33d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 04/01/2022 pg. 138