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Mia Yun
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House of the Winds (Penguin Readers Guide Inside) |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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240 |
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2000-08 |
| ISBN: |
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0140291946 |
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Penguin Books |
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0.36 pounds |
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0.47 x 5.16 x 7.68 inches |
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Product Description
House of the Winds is a stirring portrait of a family whose lives have been deeply affected by the Japanese occupation and the Korean War. In episodic and dreamlike prose, the narrator shares stories and memories of those around her: her feckless, mostly absent father; her lonely, loving mother who tells her daughter that butterflies are the souls of napping children; her gossiping neighbors; and the ghosts of weeping women that haunt their house.This extraordinary novel allows us to see how Korean women "lived in the folds of history ... laughing, wailing, spirit-cajoling, poetry-writing, tear-hiding, bosom-bracing, scheming, fire-breathing". Vivid, sensuous, permeated by beautiful images and by the mysteries that define a child's world, House of the Winds is a moving tale of awakening.
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