Princess Bari
A modern-day quest novel from one of Korea's most renowned novelists. Princess Bari tells the story of a young girl, frail and brave, who escapes from famine and death in North Korea in the 1990s. Seeking refuge in China before crossing oceans in the hold of a cargo ship, she disembarks in London, with its strange mix of different cultures, religions, and languages. In this foreign city, Bari becomes a masseuse, but she doesn't just heal the body, she also comforts souls, having learnt from her…
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- Full title :Princess Bari / Hwang Sok-Yong ; Sora Kim-Russell, translator.
Summary
A modern-day quest novel from one of Korea's most renowned novelists. Princess Bari tells the story of a young girl, frail and brave, who escapes from famine and death in North Korea in the 1990s. Seeking refuge in China before crossing oceans in the hold of a cargo ship, she disembarks in London, with its strange mix of different cultures, religions, and languages. In this foreign city, Bari becomes a masseuse, but she doesn't just heal the body, she also comforts souls, having learnt from her beloved grandmother to read the pain and nightmares of others. Alone and in a strange land, Bari will have to fight, through pain and deepening sadness, to find love and the will to stay alive. With Princess Bari, Hwang Sok-Yong entwines an old Korean myth -- of an abandoned princess travelling to the ends of the earth to find the elixir of life, which will bring peace to the souls of the dead -- with the ethereal and haunting backdrop of the modern world.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Scribe Publications
- Place of Publication:Brunswick, Vic
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
The Physical Object
- Description:252 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781925106534, 1925106535, 1859641741, 9781859641743
- oclc:ocn891307037
- LC Classification:PL992.29.S6
- Dewey Decimal:895.735
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