Princess Bari

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Princess Bari

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Author: Hwang Sok-yong
Co-Author: -
Translator: Sora Kim-Russell
Publisher: Scribe
Published Year: 2019
Country: UNITED STATES
Classification: KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
Original Title: 바리데기
Original Language: Korean(한국어)
Romanization of Original: Baridegi
ISBN: 9781947534544
Page: 252
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About the Author

Hwang Sok-yong
Birth : 1943 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Sok-yong
Family Name : Hwang
Korean Name : 황석영
ISNI : 0000000121322250
Works : 133

About the Original Work

바리데기
Author : Hwang Sok-yong
Published Year : 2007
English Title : Princess Bari

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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 bewildering mix of cultures, religions, and languages.

In this foreign city, Bari finds work as 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, which tells of an abandoned princess travelling to the ends of the earth to find the elixir of life that will bring peace to the souls of the dead, with the ethereal and haunting backdrop of the modern world.

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