EAN: 9780349016771

8 LIVES OF A CENTURY-OLD TRICKSTER - MIRINAE LE...

'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

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