Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood

The author paints a great picture of suffering and ultimately overcoming occupation on the Korean Peninsula during WW2. A wonderful read

Needed book for college class.

A wonderful coming-of-age story written with a lot of heart. Even though the product description claims it is an autobiography, the author's note itself says it is somewhere between memoir and fiction. Nevertheless, the historical events and context are a huge focus of the narrative, providing a human look at a time in history that I myself new little about. Thoroughly enjoyed.

A moving and beautifully descriptive novel of a Korean boy's view of Japanese occupied Korea, the subtleties and nuances of a single gesture and sentence can weigh so much with profound sentiments. It is both of the transformation of a boy to a man in parallel of an occupied Korea to a liberated independent Korea.

Bought for class. It was an interesting book.

A great story. Thought it was autobiographical, but isn't. The author says everyone and all events true but everything else made up. So I think he means theses things happened to someone not just all to the same person. I didn't find that out until end. An interesting read about a part of history that isn't taught in American school systems.

Anybody from an immigrant population would recognize themselves in this book. Tragic but well told story that I will read again voluntarily, as this was an assigned book for college.

Bought it for a class on World War II, thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel, provided a unique perspective on the Japanese occupation of Korea

An interesting dive into a part of history I know so little about. Written seemingly without judgement.