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Choi, Sook Nyul
ECHOES OF THE WHITE GIRAFFE
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
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ISBN 0440409705

This book is a sequel to YEAR OF IMPOSSIBLE GOODBYES. Fifteen year old Sookan has fled to South Korea with her mother and brother to escape the Communists. Life is very hard on the refugees and Sookan's one pleasure is singing in the church choir. There she becomes friends with Junho, the brother of the choir director. These two young people soon find themselves falling in love. The strict Korean society frowns on the behavior of these two. Can they overcome the disapproval and stay together? Read ECHOES OF THE WHITE GIRAFFE to find out.

SUBJECTS:     Korea -- History -- 1945 -- Fiction


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