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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

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Informationen zum Autor Mirinae Lee Klappentext 'Seven accounts, told achronologically and ranging from 1938 to 2006, reveal a series of startling transformations involving cross-dressing, spying, identity theft, motherhood and murder ... A dazzling feat of narrative sophistication and historical invention' Financial Times SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER . At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, adventure, assumed identities and spying. Stories that take place in WWII Indonesia; in Busan during the Korean war; in cold-war Pyongyang; in China. The stories are so colourful and various, at times so unbelievable, that they cannot surely all belong to the same woman. Can they? 'A gripping story set against the backdrop of Korea's turbulent history ... brilliant and original' Washington Post 'Soaring, fierce, bold, and intoxicating... an unforgettable portrait of a Korean woman navigating her place in the world over the course of almost a hundred years' Marjan Kamali, author of The Stationery Shop of Tehran 'Enthralling, captivating, tantalising ... keeps readers hooked' New York Times Vorwort A dazzlingly original, moving and thought-provoking novel about one woman's struggle to survive throughout a century of Korean history Zusammenfassung A dazzlingly original, moving and thought-provoking novel about one woman's struggle to survive throughout a century of Korean history

Product details

Authors Mirinae Lee
Publisher Virago Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 02.05.2024
 
EAN 9780349016771
ISBN 978-0-349-01677-1
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 126 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)

Second World War fiction, North Korea, Korean War

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