Princess Bari / Hwang Sok-Yong ; translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hwang, Sŏg-yŏng, 1943- author.

Contributor:

Kim-Russell, Sora, translator.

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Koreans--England--London--Fiction.

Koreans.

England--London.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Reading : Periscope, 2015.

Summary:

A modern-day quest novel from one of Korea's most renowned novelists. 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 strange mix of different cultures, religions, and languages. In this foreign city, Bari becomes 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 -- of an abandoned princess travelling to the ends of the earth to find the elixir of life, which will bring peace to the souls of the dead -- with the ethereal and haunting backdrop of the modern world.

ISBN:

9781859641743

1859641741

OCLC:

928834344