A
Tale of a Korean Orphan Boy
Historical
Fiction
Publisher:
Austin Macauley Publishers
Published:
March 2019
More
than 200,000 South Korean infants and toddlers left their motherlands in the
arms of strangers from the postwar era. "Returned and Reborn: a Tale of A
Korean Orphan Boy" is the first novel about such an orphan--a boy fathered
by a missionary priest who established the first Catholic Adult Institute in
South Korea. This fiction is based on a true story, mixed with Korea's modern
history--Vietnam War in which 300,000 South Korean troops fought (5001 were
killed); the unintentional harm the American military caused to the Korean
people by disposing millions of gallons of toxic chemicals called "Agent
Orange" in the Korean water ways and soil; and the Korean society's
contempt against children of mixed blood, children born of unwed mothers, and those
born with birth defects. It's the story of a young man's journey of self
discovery from an aimless American with no knowledge of himself or his roots
who returns to his birth country, reunite with his Korean birth mother dying
from cancer caused by consuming toxic water over time, but unexpected accident
separate them permanently. Yet, through her and his deceased father's former
co-workers, he learns of his father's greatness as well as his weakness, as an
ambitious American Jesuit who fulfilled his big dreams but caused his birth and
troublesome journey as an orphan forced to leave his mother who couldn't raise
him. Still, in a mysterious way, he finds his own path--the path to a mission
trip to North Korea.
About
the Author
Therese
Park came to the United States to be a cellist with the Kansas City
Philharmonic (now the Kansas City Symphony) in 1966. After 30 years, she
retired and began writing. Her first novel A Gift of the Emperor (published in
1997) is about a Korean schoolgirl forced into military prostitution by the
Japanese government during World War II. With this book, Park was one of the
featured authors at three national bookfairs in 1998: The Los Angeles Bookfair,
The Miami Bookfair, The Heartland Bookfair. A Gift of the Emperor was selected in
the reference volumes Reading Groups Choices for 1998 and she was mentioned in
Contemporary Authors 2001. Her second
novel: "When a Rooster Crows at Night" is based on her own experience
of the Korean War she lived through as a child.
Her third "The Northern Wind: a Forced Journey to North Korea"
deals with intense inner war between the two Koreas divided by two extreme
ideologies--Communism and Capitalism after WWII. Her
recently published "Returned and Reborn: a Tale of a Korean Orphan
Boy" published by Austin Macauley Publishers, LLC. in New York, NY.
Park
has written more than 400 essays and articles that have been published in The
Kansas City Star, The Sun Publication, The Graybeard, the National Korean War
Veterans Magazine, The Best Times, and Our Family (Canada), The Beat Magazine
and Korea Bridge (South Korea) and more.
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