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English(English) E-Book

How I Became a North Korean

About the E-Books

Title Sub
A Novel
Author
Krys Lee
Co-Author
-
Translator
-
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published Year
2016
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
How I Became a North Korean
Romanization of Original
How I Became a North Korean
Original Language

English(English)

ISBN
9780399563935
Page
-
Series
OverDrive Read

About the Author

  • Krys Lee
  • Birth : - ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Krys
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 크리스 리
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
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Descriptions -
  • English(English)

"Lee takes us into urgent and emotional novelistic terrain: the desperate and tenuous realms defectors are forced to inhabit after escaping North Korea.” –Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son 

"The more confusing and horrible our world becomes, the more critical the role of fiction in communicating both the facts and the meaning of other people’s lives. Krys Lee joins writers like Anthony Marra, Khaled Hosseini and Elnathan John in this urgent work." –San Francisco Chronicle

Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since childhood, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Then there is Danny, a Chinese-American teenager whose quirks and precocious intelligence have long made him an outcast in his California high school.

These three disparate lives converge when they flee their homes, finding themselves in a small Chinese town just across the river from North Korea. As they fight to survive in a place where danger seems to close in on all sides, in the form of government informants, husbands, thieves, abductors, and even missionaries, they come to form a kind of adoptive family. But will Yongju, Jangmi and Danny find their way to the better lives they risked everything for?

Transporting the reader to one of the least-known and most threatening environments in the world, and exploring how humanity persists even in the most desperate circumstances, How I Became a North Korean is a brilliant and essential first novel by one of our most promising writers.

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