Echoes of the White Giraffe - Hardcover

Choi, Sook Nyul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395647215 ISBN 13: 9780395647219

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993

Synopsis

In the sequel to Year of Impossible Goodbyes, fifteen-year-old Sookan is living in a refugee camp in Pusan, a city in southern Korea, where she becomes involved in struggling to rebuild a normal life and to make decisions about her own life.

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How terrible the word refugee sounds. Through tear-filled eyes, Sookan stares down at her torn shoes and dirty clothes, and fingers her hair, which has not been washed since she and her mother and younger brother fled the bombing in Seoul three days before. The unforgettable heroine of Year of Impossible Goodbyes is now fifteen years old and newly arrived in Pusan, a city in a southern province of Korea. The Korean War is raging, and Sookan has again been separated from her father and older brothers. Often she feels sad, alone, and scared.

Then she meets an intriguing boy named Junho, who is quiet, thoughtful, and handsome, and the two develop a special but forbidden relationship. Times are changing, but are they changing fast enough to allow their friendship to grow?

Here is Sookan's story.

-- "[A] haunting sequel....[Choi] has once again succeeded in putting a very human face on a tragic episode of world history. this inspirational work possesses a confidence and quiet triumph with universal reverberations."

-- Publishers Weekly, Starred

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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0395647215
• ISBN 13: 9780395647219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 137