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Three friends are caught between the warring states of North and South Korea, in this epic novel of love, espionage and betrayal. The Great Homecoming combines the astonishing history of the Korean peninsula (comparable to Barbara Demick'sNothing to Envy)with the powerful storytelling of Hans Fallada'sAlone in Berlinand Madeleine Thien'sDo Not Say We Have Nothing.
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Anna Kim was born in 1977 in Daejeon, South Korea and grew up in Austria, where she studied Philosophy at the University of Vienna. She is the author of four novels and two essay collections, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Austrian State Fellowship for Literature, the Elias Canetti Fellowship, the Robert Musil Fellowship, and the 2012 European Union Prize for Literature. Her novel Frozen Time was published in English translation in 2010, and her novel Anatomy of a Night in 2012. Her books have also been translated into French, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Macedonian, Albanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Turkish.Jamie Lee Searle is a literary translator from German and Portuguese, and a co-founder of the UK Emerging Translators Network.
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Three friends are caught between the warring states of North and South Korea, in this epic novel of love, espionage and betrayal.
