After some time, she was lucky enough to be adopted by an American couple. But just as her Western features doomed her in Korea, so her Asian features served as a constant reminder that she wasn't good enough for her new, all-white environment. Elizabeth was dumped in an orphanage in Seoul.
Urn:oclc:861895489 Scandate 20100622043651 Scanner . Elizabeth Kim: Ten Thousand Sorrows - The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan. Unfamiliar with Western customs and language, but terrified that she would be sent back to the orphanage, or even killed, Kim trained herself to be the perfect child.
OL18057733W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.93 Pages 248 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0553812645 The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside. Urn:lcp:tenthousandsorro00kime:lcpdf:4aeb4274-c932-4865-a74a-d1049babf31f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier tenthousandsorro00kime Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t03x8zk5p Isbn 1864710462ĩ781864710465 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Elizabeth Kim is a journalist and the author of the best selling novel Ten Thousand Sorrows, which has been chronicled in O, Oprah Winfreys magazine.
Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:19:19 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA122118 Camera Canon 5D City Milsons Point, N.S.W. Ten Thousand Sorrows is a powerful and heartbreaking story of a little orphaned girl from South Korea who gets a second chance in life and gets adopted by an American family.
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