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Elizabeth Kim is the pen name of an American journalist who authored the book Ten Thousand Sorrows, which is described as a memoir. Early life. Kim was born in South Korea to a Korean mother and an American father. She was conceived most likely after the Korean Armistice Agreement, which ended the fighting in the Korean War. [1] .
Biographies & Memoirs. edit data. Elizabeth Kim is a journalist and the author of the best selling novel "Ten Thousand Sorrows", which has been chronicled in O, Oprah Winfrey's magazine. Kim was born in Korea to a Korean mother and an American father who had deserted her mother.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Elizabeth Kim’s book is a shocking account of racism and abuse from the perspective of a mixed-race daughter of a Korean mother and American soldier. As a small child her mother has her hide when her grandfather comes to hang her mother for dishonoring their family.
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Oct 6, 2000 · Escaping Her Past / San Rafael author Elizabeth Kim, a Korean War orphan raised by fundamentalist parents in California, tells of her painful upbringing in ahaunting memoir. By Rona...
May 16, 2000 · Elizabeth Kim is a Korean war orphan who survived abuse, rejection and poverty in the US. Her memoir, Ten Thousand Sorrows, is a Kirkus Reviews book that chronicles her extraordinary journey of survival and resilience.
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Jan 1, 2002 · Ten Thousand Sorrows. Paperback – January 1, 2002. I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today.'. 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.
May 2, 2000 · Overview. They called it an "honor killing," but to Elizabeth Kim, the night she watched her grandfather and uncle hang her mother from the wooden rafter in the corner of their small Korean hut, it was cold-blooded murder.
