Publisher: Seven Stories Press (A)
240 pages
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
Vivid snapshots from the Korean War and surreal encounters with ghosts
intersect in this first major U.S. release by award-winning Korean
novelist Sok-Yong. The result—threaded with gritty religious and
political undertones—is an ambitious exploration of a postwar survivor's
chaotic psyche. Rev. Ryu Yosop, an elderly minister living in New
Jersey, is stalked by memories of the horrific 52-day massacre he
witnessed 40 years ago in North Korea's Hwanghae Province, where his
older brother Yohan played a leading role in the carnage. To confront
his past, Yosop returns to his hometown of Ch'ansaemgol for the first
time since he immigrated to America 20 years earlier. Drifting between
the past and the present, among the living and the dead, Yosop yearns to
appease and exorcise the spirits that haunt him. Yosop's struggle
becomes truly gripping as he reunites with long-lost family members in
North Korea. Chaperoned by Communist Party members who resolutely blame
past atrocities on the American military, Yosop remembers all too well
that it was his own Christian and Communist neighbors who committed the
bloodshed. Though the time-traveling prose takes some getting used to,
Sok-Yong eloquently chronicles Yosop's odyssey through guilt, fear,
faith and forgiveness.
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