Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women

By Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

Silence Broken is essentially an oral history of Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II. Their stories, told to the author in Korea, China and Japan, are the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931209889
• ISBN13: 9780931209888
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Mid-Prairie Books
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Fighting Tears

Some say that we wretched Koreans--the poeple of Hahn (everlasting woe)--have run out of tears. But to my wonderment, I found myself fighting tears as I turned the pages of Dai Sil Kim-Gibson's Silence Broken. Destiny has willed this poet-philosopher-filmmaker to tell the stories of the ultimate Hahn for posterity.

Excellent!

Ms. Kim-Gibson thoughtfully personalizes the stories of comfort-women.

Silence Broken: an Epiphany

Long-suppressed by the Japanese government and often overlooked by historians, the Korean comfort women's story emerges at last. Activist, film maker and writer Dai Sil Kim-Gibson has tackled the monumental task of exposing these Korean comfort women's stories to the public. With empathetic probing and years of patient interviews, Kim-Gibson succeeds in opening up these women whose lives have been pockmarked by the brutality of their surroundings. Their oral history is moving testament to the human's stubborn will to survive. Elucidating and inspiring, this book is a must-read.