THE CALLIGRAPHER S DAUGHTER

Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose herown destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by hermother—but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition,especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country.When he seeks to marry fourteen-year-old Najin into an aristocratic family,her mother defies generations of obedient wives and instead sends herdaughter to serve in the king's court as a companion to a young princess.But the king is soon assassinated, and the centuries-old dynastic culturecomes to its end. In the shadow of the dying monarchy, Najin begins ajourney through increasing oppression that will change her world forever.As she desperately seeks to continue her education, will the unexpectedlove she finds along the way be enough to sustain her through the violenceand subjugation her country continues to face? Spanning thirty years, TheCalligapher's Daughter is an exquisite novel about a country torn betweenancient customs and modern possibilities, a family ultimately united bylove and a woman who never gives up her search for freedom.