Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook’s differences are impossible to ignore. The Island of Sea Women is an epoch set over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War and its aftermath, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing the closest of bonds, forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point.
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Lisa See
Lisa See nasceu em Paris, mas cresceu em Los Angeles, mais especificamente em Chinatown. É formada pela Loyola Marymount University. Foi correspondente na Costa Oeste americana da Publisher’s Weekly. Em 1996, lançou seu primeiro livro, On golden mountain, as elogiadas memórias da saga de sua família sino-americana, best-seller nos EUA. Ruiva, com apenas um oitavo de sangue chinês, Lisa tem na cultura dos antepassados orientais suas referências como escritora. Ela estreou na ficção em 1997, com A rede da flor, indicado para o Edgar Award como melhor romance de estréia daquele ano. Atualmente, ela vive em Los Angeles com o marido e e os dois filhos.
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