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ABOUT THE BOOK
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, the haenyeo, led by Young-sook’s mother – holding their breath to gather abalone and octopus from the cold ocean floor.
Over many decades, from the Japanese colonial period through the Second World War, the Korean War and the massacres of 1948, their friendship will be tested by forces far beyond their control, until one devastating moment drives them apart.
Told across more than seventy years, The Island of Sea Women is a story of female friendship and family secrets, set in a remarkable matriarchal culture where women are the breadwinners.
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