The Picture Bride

Could you marry a man you've never met? Three Korean women in 1918 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii, where they will marry, having seen only photographs of their intended husbands.Different fates await each of these women. Hong-ju, who dreams of a marriage of 'natural love', meets a man who looks twenty years older than his photograph; Song-hwa, who wants to escape from her life of ridicule as the granddaughter of a shaman, meets a lazy drunkard. And then there's Willow, whose 26-year-old groom, Taewan, looks just like his image ...Real life doesn't always resemble a picture, but there's no going back. And while things don't turn out quite as they'd hoped, even for Willow, they do find something that makes their journey worthwhile - each other.

Product details

• Authors: Yi-Lee Geum, Lee Geum-Yi, Geum-Yi Lee, Geum Yi-Lee
• Assisted by: An Seon Jae (Translation)
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781913348861
• ISBN: 978-1-913348-86-1
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Hawaii, Romance, Korea, Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 1910 to c 1919, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Biographical fiction, C 1900 - C 1914, FICTION / World Literature / Korea