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How I Became a North Korean
Krys Lee
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Paperback. Yongju is a student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since childhood. Danny is a Chinese-American teenager of Korean descent whose parents left China when he was nine. These three disparate lives converge when each of them travel to the region where China borders North Korea. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 240 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
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.families. Danny is a Chinese-American teenager of Korean descent whose parents left China when he was nine; his quirks and precocious intelligence have long marked him as an outcast among his peers, and he yearns for the China of his youth. These three disparate lives converge when each of them travels to the region where China borders North Korea--Danny to visit his mother, ... Read more
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.families. Danny is a Chinese-American teenager of Korean descent whose parents left China when he was nine; his quirks and precocious intelligence have long marked him as an outcast among his peers, and he yearns for the China of his youth. These three disparate lives converge when each of them travels to the region where China borders North Korea--Danny to visit his mother, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571276219
SKU
9780571276219
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About Krys Lee
Krys Lee is the author of the short story collection Drifting House and How I Became a North Korean. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association, and a finalist for the BBC International Story Prize. Her fiction, journalism, and literary ... Read more
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