When My Name Was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in World War II

by Linda Sue Park. Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books, $15.00.

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In 1940, when the Japanese rulers of Korea decreed that all Koreans must take Japanese names, Kim Sun-hee's official name changed, but she did not lose her Korean identity or her patriotism which grew as the war came far too close to home, food and clothing became difficult to get, her uncle who had been working for the underground fled, and her brother joined the Japanese army to become a kamikaze pilot.

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0-618-13335-6

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