Yoko kawashima watkins wikipedia
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Yoko kawashima watkins wikipedia
So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Book by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
So Far from the Bamboo Grove is an autobiography written by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, a Japanese American writer.[1] It was originally published by Beech Tree in April 1986.
Watkins's book takes place in the last days of 35 years of Korea's annexation by Japan. An eleven-year-old Japanese girl, Yoko Kawashima, whose father works for the Japanese government, must leave her home in Nanam, part of northern Korea, as her family escapes south to Seoul, then to Busan, to return to Japan.
Plot summary
The story begins with Yoko Kawashima (and her mother, brother and sister) living in Nanam.
Yoko kawashima watkins wikipedia biography
Yoko is 11 years old and living in North Korea during World War II while their father works as a Japanese government official in Manchuria, China. As the war draws towards a close, Yoko and her family realize the danger of their situation and attempts to escape back to Japan as communist troops close in on North Korea.