The author uses it skillfully to examine issue of trauma, the meanings of names and the systematic violence that occurs when a culture is dominated by an outside force. The issue of history is certainly important in this book, and provides it with a very unique backdrop. The issue of the enslavement of Korean women to service Japanese soldiers during the war is at once a catalyst, a terrible haunting force, and the barrier to a better understanding of family lineage. The comfort women issue-perhaps one of the most contentious and controversial subjects in Japanese-Korean relations-is the backdrop of this amazing novel. A Book that is about Far More than just History
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