8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Author:	Lee, Mirinae
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9780349016757
Publisher:	Virago Press (UK)
Language:	English
Page Count:	290
Publication Date:	5/4/2023
Size:	9.25" l x 6.13" w x 1.00"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Fiction	Cultural Heritage
Fiction	Historical

SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms. Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, assumed identities and spying. A narrative that jumps from WWII Indonesia to Busan during the Korean war; from cold-war Pyongyang to a Protestant church in China. The adventures are so colourful and various, at times so unbelievable. Surely they can't all belong to the same woman. Can they?

As playful and thought-provoking as it is compelling, as brutal and harrowing as it is achingly poignant and tender, this is a novel about love and war, deceit and betrayal, about identity, storytelling and the trickery required for survival.

'Captivating' New York Times

'Dazzling' Financial Times

'Heartbreaking' Monica Ali