I read the first chapter on the Nyt website, and it's certainly an attention grabber. Mi Ran, a young woman who became a school-teacher despite her father's dirty South Korean blood,* falls in love with a young man in her town. They aren't allowed to be together because they belong to different castes, but at night, when it's pitch dark (because there's no electricity), they walk around the edges of town - not even really talking, just holding hands. Years later, they discover that they both defected and had been living relatively close to each other in South Korea, and they meet again. I wanted it to be like Casablanca - Mi Ran had married a South Korean man - but mostly it was just awkward.
Things were pretty good for North Korea in the 60s and 70s, propped up as it was by the Ussr and Mao; but then...
Things were pretty good for North Korea in the 60s and 70s, propped up as it was by the Ussr and Mao; but then...
- 6/17/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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