Against the backdrop of modern Korea's violent and tumultuous history, To Kill A Tiger is a searing portrait of a woman and a society in the midst of violent change. Drawing on Korean legend and myth, as well as an Asian woman's unique perspective on the United States, Lee weaves her compelling personal narrative with a collective and accessible history of modern Korea, from Japanese colonialism to war-era comfort women, from the genocide of the Korean War to the government persecution and silence of Cold War-era pogroms. The ritual of storytelling, which she shares with the women of her family, serves as a window into a five-generation family saga, and it is through storytelling that Lee comes to appreciate the sacrifices of her ancestors and her own now American place in her family and society. In To Kill A Tiger Lee provides a revelatory look at war and modernization in her native country, a story of personal growth, and a tribute to the culture that formed her.
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- A Note on Authenticity
- A Woman Who Wished to Be Eaten Alive by a Tiger
- The Stolen Grapes
- My Little Dog
- Love Thy Enemy, They Say
- Peppers
- Exiled in His Own Country
- Stealing a Dream
- The Good Vampires
- Summer Perils
- Under the Gun
- Dead Man Speaks
- Shakespeare on a Grass Roof
- Love in a Dust Storm
- To Seoul
- A Woman Who Flew Down from the Moon
- My Mother’s Daughter
- Aunt Minsoon, the Comfort Woman
- Women Whose Marriages to the Gods Were Successful
- Battle Fatigue
- They Were Nice Fellows
- No Gun Ri
- Conjure the Devil
- Lucid Dreaming
- Homeward Bound
- Love Made Me Grow Tall
- My Father’s Daughter
- An Amaryllis in a Stone Field
- Hope for Reunion
- No-Name State
- Acknowledgments
- Index