BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
I MARRIED A KOREAN, by Agnes Davis Kim; Victor Gollancz, English price 13/6. GNES DAVIS KIM left America for " " Korea in 1934 in order to marry a Korean student she had met six years before when they were undergraduates at the same University. She settled into a mud hut on a two-acre farm and with almost frightening efficiency started to make the best out of what at first sight would appear, to most gadget and hygiene-minded American women, as a fairly bad job, although no hint of dismay or regret ever appears in her story. The Kims are believers in One World, they are Moral Rearmers and trained missionaries. Ironically enough, it is the very fact of their marriage that makes their services unacceptable to both American and Japanese institutions. But in time they build a house, start a clinic, a co-operative and a school. When Mrs. Kim sticks to factual description she is at her best, but when she puts forward her views. on religion and racial prejudice, admirable though her sentiments may be, there is a tendency towards the soap box, a leetle flavour of smugness-it could be a lack of a sense of humour-which mars the otherwise good qualities of her book.
Isobel
Andrews
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 818, 1 April 1955, Page 14
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210BETWEEN TWO WORLDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 818, 1 April 1955, Page 14
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