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Princess Bari

Princess Bari

by Hwang Sok-Yong
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Publication Date: 27/04/2015

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PRINCESS BARI

Hwang Sok-yong
Translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell

`Hwang Sok-yong is undoubtedly the most powerful voice of the novel in Asia today'
Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the North Korean city of Chongjin, a seventh daughter is born in 1983 to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is dragged away by the family dog and eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child "Bari", after a Korean legend telling of a similarly forsaken princess who undertakes a quest for an elixir that will bring peace to the souls of the dead. Bari, who has inherited her grandmother's extraordinary intuitive powers and the ability to see apparitions, escapes famine and desolation in North Korea as a delicate but brave adolescent. She finds refuge in China before embarking on the sort of journey made by thousands in our time: across the ocean in the hold of a cargo ship, bound for London and, it is hoped, for a better life.
ISBN:
9781859641743
9781859641743
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-04-2015
Publisher:
Garnet Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
306
Dimensions (mm):
202x138mm
Hwang Sok-Yong

Hwang Sok-Yong was born in 1943 and is arguably Korea's most renowned author. In 1993, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for an unauthorised trip to the North to promote exchange between artists in the two Koreas. Five years later, he was released on a special pardon by the new president.

The recipient of Korea's highest literary prizes and shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger, his novels and shorts stories are published in North and South Korea, Japan, China, France, Germany, and the United States.

Previous novels include The Ancient Garden, The Story of Mister Han, The Guest, and The Shadow of Arms.

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