A 1905-1937 biography of “Kim San”. Kim joined the Chinese Communists as way to resist the Japanese occupation of Korea.

The author goes to Korea in search of her identity, and discovers her grandmother’s compelling story of growing up in a traditional Korean household, expatriating to China to escape the Japanese occupation, and returning only to survive the dramatic hardships of the Korean War.

This fictionalized Patty Hearst saga relates the travails of a Japanese American activist who is both on the run (former radical terrorist bomber with her boyfriend, who is in prison) from the law, and from herself—the rage and disconnectedness she feels.

Written in present tense, this tale is about KA estranged twin sisters who meet in Europe to mend their relationship.

An American missionary tells about his life in Korea at the end of the 19th century, before the Japanese Occupation and the fall of the Kingdom/Empire.

If you will read only one book about Korean history, this is the one. Seth organizes and edits Korea’s rich and vast history into a digestible and coherent whole, covering its legendary origins and through the 19th century.

A unique perspective on a rarely visited period of Korean modern history.

One of the earlier Korean-American memoirs (published 1959), this was written to thank people who helped the author locate and send her three children to meet her and her husband in America, after the Korean War.

Interspersed with historical information, this memoir recounts the trials of a young Korean girl growing up in Japan during Japan’s occupation of Korea, through liberation and the beginning of the Korean War.