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Skull Water - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Skull Water - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R547
Discovery Miles 5 470
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A "mesmerizing" (PW, James McBride) "magnificent" (Ha Jin)
intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South Korea-about
friendship, belonging, and displacement. Growing up outside a US
military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War,
Insu-the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the
US Army-spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping
school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market,
watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between
childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water
collected in a human skull will cure any sickness, he vows to find
some in order to heal his ailing Big Uncle, a geomancer who has
been exiled by the family to a mountain cave to die. Insu's quest
takes him and his friends on a sprawling, wild journey into some of
South Korea's darkest corners, opening them up to a world beyond
their grasp. Meanwhile, Big Uncle has embraced his solitude and
fate, and as he recalls his wartime experiences of betrayal and
lost love, he attempts to teach his nephew that life is not limited
to what we can see-or think we know. Largely autobiographical and
deeply rooted in time and place, Skull Water is the story of a boy
coming into his own-and the ways the past continues to haunt the
present in a country struggling to confront its troubled history as
it moves into modernity.
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