A Ricepaper Airplane

by Gary Pak and Aamna Qureshi

Book Overview

From a hospital bed a dying man unfolds the tale of an arduous life on the fringes of a Hawai'i sugar plantation in the 1920s. There Kim Sung Wha--laborer, patriot, revolutionary, aviator--envisioned building an airplane from ricepaper, bamboo, and the scrap parts of a broken-down bicycle, an airplane that would carry him back to his Korean homeland and to his wife and children. From the start Sung Wha's dream is destined to fail, but this moving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824813014
• ISBN13: 9780824813017
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"