I am delighted to be back in touch with you, my dear friend. You are the oldest friend I have in my blogging career and the most cherished as well! Is it possible your previous post was published nearly five years ago? Thank you for tracing me from my old blog to the new one. I welcome you back into my life!
I enjoyed your book review. Clearly Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko: A novel of 20th century Korea and Japan, afforded you the opportunity to learn a lesson in history as you followed the story of four generations of a Korean family and, in particular, of Sunja, a young woman who conceives a child by a gangster but refuses to be his kept mistress. Instead she marries a respectable man and they and hundreds of thousands of other Koreans travel to Japan to settle, work and raise a family. In Japan they live in a ghetto and face discrimination, regarded as second class citizens. Now that the book has whet your appetite, you are inspired to do more research and reading to learn more about Japanese and Korean culture and this regrettable page in the region's history.
Thank you again for reaching out across the miles and the years, dear friend Katia. You always were and always will be one of my favorite people. I hope you, your husband and son are doing well and I hope we will connect again soon. This Saturday, April 13, I will be publishing a special post that contains pictures of me as a small child along with pictures of my big brother, ten years older, who will be celebrating his 80th birthday. I hope you can come over and see it. Thank you, Katia!
As before your translation tool has changed or scrambled some of my sentences. I hope you can understand what I was trying to communicate in my comment, dear Katia. :)
Hi, dear Katia!
RispondiEliminaI am delighted to be back in touch with you, my dear friend. You are the oldest friend I have in my blogging career and the most cherished as well! Is it possible your previous post was published nearly five years ago? Thank you for tracing me from my old blog to the new one. I welcome you back into my life!
I enjoyed your book review. Clearly Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko: A novel of 20th century Korea and Japan, afforded you the opportunity to learn a lesson in history as you followed the story of four generations of a Korean family and, in particular, of Sunja, a young woman who conceives a child by a gangster but refuses to be his kept mistress. Instead she marries a respectable man and they and hundreds of thousands of other Koreans travel to Japan to settle, work and raise a family. In Japan they live in a ghetto and face discrimination, regarded as second class citizens. Now that the book has whet your appetite, you are inspired to do more research and reading to learn more about Japanese and Korean culture and this regrettable page in the region's history.
Thank you again for reaching out across the miles and the years, dear friend Katia. You always were and always will be one of my favorite people. I hope you, your husband and son are doing well and I hope we will connect again soon. This Saturday, April 13, I will be publishing a special post that contains pictures of me as a small child along with pictures of my big brother, ten years older, who will be celebrating his 80th birthday. I hope you can come over and see it. Thank you, Katia!
As before your translation tool has changed or scrambled some of my sentences. I hope you can understand what I was trying to communicate in my comment, dear Katia. :)
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