A Gesture Life

A Gesture Life

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author = Chang-Rae Lee
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Riverhead Books
pub_date = September 6, 1999
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 356 pp.
isbn = ISBN 978-1573221467
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"A Gesture Life" is a novel written by Chang-Rae Lee which takes the form of a narrative of an elderly physician who remembers treating Korean comfort women for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.

ee also

*Chang-Rae Lee
*Comfort women

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/chadofborg/agesturelife1.htm Notes on A Gesture Life, Part 1]
* [http://www.geocities.com/chadofborg/agesturelife2.htm Notes on A Gesture Life, Part 2]


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