Ten Thousand Sorrows - Elizabeth Kim

...life is made up of ten thousand sorrows, but also ten thousand joys. Her childhood with her mother is a happy one, despite their ostrasization and stonings by other villagers, until Elizabeth's mother is killed by her father and brother to maintain the honour of the family. Elizabeth is forced to watch her mother being hung from a hiding place, but she is soon discovered, and taken to an American Missionary orphanage by her aunt, who are told that ...
...allowed her to feel the ten thousand joys that her mother always said she would have in her life. MY IMPRESSIONS This is a sad tale, made even sadder by the fact that it is true. It feels like it is written wholely from the heart, and it seems to convey nothing but honesty. She describes the sad events in her life in a matter-of-fact way, with no dressing up or exageration, which allows you to feel the pain with her. I particularly like the way ...

glward_1213 15.06.2008 · Read full review
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...life was made up of Ten Thousand Sorrows but Ten Thousand Joys would balance it out too. I really was not sure as I started to read this book, whether I could bear to read of Omma's murder or the sick abuse that followed the author's life for many years. As a Christian, I was personally sickened by the way she was mistreated by her so-called Christian adoptive mum & dad and future husband, and I could fully understand her aversion to the religious ...
...emotional written pages of the time leading up to and including her mother's murder would make even the most die-hard of people weep! This book will highly-charge your emotions from anger to deep sadness. Many a time I reached out for a tissue and other times my hackles would rise….very high! But most of all, I realised just how fortunate my own life really is, and how thankful I should be. Elizabeth, now a Buddhist, is a journalist in the San ...

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