In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple
longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is
eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the
child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess who
undertakes a quest for an elixir that will bring peace to the souls
of the dead. As a young woman, frail, brave Bari escapes North
Korea and takes refuge in China before embarking on a journey
across the ocean in the hold of a cargo ship, seeking a better
life. She lands in London, where she finds work as a masseuse. Paid
to soothe her clients' aching bodies, she discovers that she can
ease their more subtle agonies as well, having inherited her
beloved grandmother's uncanny ability to read the pain and fears of
others. Bari makes her home amongst other immigrants living
clandestinely. She finds love in unlikely places, but also suffers
a series of misfortunes that push her to the limits of sanity. Yet
she has come too far to give in to despair - Princess Bari is a
captivating novel that leavens the grey reality of cities and slums
with the splendour of fable. Hwang Sok-yong has transfigured an
age-old legend and made it vividly relevant to our own times.
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