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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