Description
A young North Korean refugee named Bari flees famine and death in the 1990s, only to be pushed from one precarious refuge to the next—first across the border into China, then into an unfamiliar, unforgiving world far beyond home. As Bari struggles to survive, her journey echoes the Korean shamanist tale of Princess Bari, a seventh daughter who descends into darkness to retrieve the water of life for those who are dying. Blending modern displacement with mythic trials, the novel explores endurance, family bonds, spiritual inheritance, and the thin line between hope and erasure. With Hwang Sok-yong’s lyrical, socially attuned storytelling—rendered newly accessible through this translation—Bari’s story becomes both a harrowing escape narrative and a meditation on what it means to keep living when the world has already decided you won’t.
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paperback
Scribe Publications
Published Jan 1, 2019
256 pages
ISBN: 9781947534544
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First Published
2019
Language
eng
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